Bug#928111: [pre-approval] unblock: icu/63.2-1

[Ivo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org>]

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Hi,

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 01:57:15PM +0200, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> Hi Release Team,
> 
> As Hideki Yamane noted on debian-release [1] Japanese new era is in
> effect. ICU upstream released the 63.2 version to address this. The
> packaging is ready to be uploaded. There are two things to consider.
> First that it contains other (not related to the new era), stable
> fixes as well. Including the two backported patches present in the
> 63.1-6 package.
> Second is that I've made local testing and only found a regression.
> Chromium (the browser) needs to be binNMUed as otherwise it will crash
> on startup.

First of all, we can't make a statement on something like this without seeing
the diff.

Secondly, the fact that chromium needs a rebuild suggest there is a change
that breaks something. This makes it very unlikely that this change is
appropriate at this point in the freeze. Maybe targeted fixes on top of 63.1
would be better.

Please do not upload 63.2 to unstable at this point.

I suggest you upload the new version to experimental. That way we can look at
the differences and people can test the new packages.

Thanks,

Ivo