Bug#894159: transition: icu
Hi László,
First of all, sorry for the delay. I saw there were several issues here and
decided to postpone this a bit. Please see some questions below.
On 26/03/18 22:29, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> It will need a quick bootstrap. It needs to build without the Layout
> Engine API, then the support library (icu-le-hb). Only then ICU can be
> built with the Layout Engine API as the two libraries tied together.
Can you explain that? Why can't you enable Layout Engine from the start?
> Some patches are simply adding '--with-icu=/usr' to the configure
> invocation in debian/rules. Others are for ICU detection in the
> configuration phase. No code change is needed in the packages.
> If it matters, Ubuntu already transitioned with a bit different method.
Are those changes and the large number of FTBFS because of the removal of
icu-config? Can we keep it for now and file bugs at severity:important for the
rdeps asking to fix the build when icu-config is removed? That should ease this
transition.
I would appreciate a number of failing rdeps and how many are due to ICU API
changes and how many are due to icu-config removal.
Cheers,
Emilio
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