Bug#912853: transition: icu
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
Hi RMs,
I'd like to upload ICU 63.1 which was recently released for Buster.
The packaging already bootstrapped with icu-le-hb (Layout Engine using
the HarfBuzz library) in experimental.
Rebuilding of dependent packages are in progress. I can report the
following so far.
Level 1
widelands FTBFS, but I've a patch.
Level 2
boost1.63 FTBFS due to an unrelated, Pyhon 3.7 problem probably
related to the already reported case in #902921 [1].
I think it's going to be removed thus didn't investigated further.
hfst-ospell FTBFS and while I've a patch, it's already fixed in its
new, 0.5.1 release.
mozjs60 FTBFS due to an unrelated problem, confirmed in a clean Sid
environment as well.
nodejs FTBFS on x86 only and while I've a patch it will still fail to
build due to its test suite problems already reported in #902512 [2].
openttd FTBFS on x86 only and upstream has a patch that can be
backported easily.
Other packages are in build testing. I don't expect too much problems
and fixing build failures are quite easy.
This has to be done with the Boost 1.67 transition which is already
scheduled. I don't think this would delay that too much as my testing
is done with the ICU transitioned boost1.67 package and boost-defaults
set to it.
It seems more and more applications start to use it as their ICU
dependency for Unicode 11.0 support including Firefox and Chromium
browser.
Would be nice if Buster can be shipped with this ICU release.
Regards,
Laszlo/GCS
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/902921
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/902512
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