Bug#1007905: transition: icu
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 06:05:38PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 17:38:43 +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
>...
> Obviously all these copies of essentially the same codebase are quite
> unfortunate, but mozjs and ICU seem to be sufficiently tightly-coupled
> that perhaps using its vendored version of ICU, at least temporarily,
> would be wiser than using the system copy?
IMHO unblocking GNOME by temporarily making mozjs91 use its vendored
version until the ICU transition would be a reasonable approach.
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 18:26:41 +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> > Speak of the devil. ICU 71.1 RC [1] just released. Final is expected
> > in April (two-three weeks). Would you two mind if I package it and ask
> > for testing of your packages (mozjs91 and nodejs) against it?
>
> Speaking only for myself, I'm flexible about timings for this; but Ubuntu
> has already done the ICU 70.1 transition and is currently using it for
> their next LTS release, and 2-3 weeks is probably too late for them to
> do another transition before their freeze deadline.
Does Ubuntu even care either way?
AFAIK both now and in 2-3 weeks is inside their freeze.
> smcv
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Adrian
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