Bug#879801: ftbfs with icu from experimental

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

HI all,

I have now installed icu60 in a chroot and try to find what are the
equivalent calls to pkg-config.

> > [1] http://userguide.icu-project.org/howtouseicu

Interestingly, and I am far from sure that this is correct, is that
pkg-config returns *nothing* on --cflags
  $ pkg-config --cflags icu-uc icu-io

  $ pkg-config --libs icu-uc icu-io
  -licuio -licui18n -licuuc -licudata
This is with current experimental.

In contrast, current sid, what we use for TL building:
  $ icu-config --cppflags
  -I/usr/include 
  $ icu-config  --ldflags-searchpath  --ldflags-libsonly --ldflags-system
  -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -licui18n -licuuc -licudata -lpthread -ldl -lm   

Trying to mimic this with pkg-config seems to be a bit tricky.

I am not sure whether replacement of
  icu-config --cppflags
with
  pkg-config --cflags icu-uc icu-io
and 
  icu-config --ldflags-searchpath  --ldflags-libsonly --ldflags-system
with
  pkg-config --libs icu-uc icu-io
is enough, but I will try out at some point...

> For other reasons, the actual transition needs months (I expect it in
> February, 2018) thus you have time to make the switch.

Just one last idea ... icu-config is *still* shipped with upstream. 
It would be nice if either you or upstream provides a concise guide how
to transition to pkg-config, instead of unilaterally removing icu-config
from Debian.

Thanks for your understanding

Norbert

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