Bug#736648: RFP: icu4j-49 -- a library for Unicode support and internationalization

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-01-26 01:15, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> * Emmanuel Bourg:
> 
>> Would it be possible to upgrade the existing icu4j package
>> instead? japi-compliance-checked reports a compatibility of 80%.
>> Here are the issues found by clirr:
>> 
>> ERROR: 8001: com.ibm.icu.impl.ByteBuffer: Class
>> com.ibm.icu.impl.ByteBuffer removed [...]
> 
> To me, this looks like a significant, backward-incompatible changes
> in the API. In the world of shared libraries, this kind of stuff
> makes changes to the SONAME necessary.
> 
> That being said, it might be possible to package a newer version
> of icu4j instead (I haven't tried building Lucene4 against anything
> newer than 49.1.) Upstream is at 52.1 right now.
> 
> Cheers, -Hilko
> 
> 

Hi,

Note that all the mentioned classes seem to be in an "impl" package.
Sometimes upstream only remove/change implementation details but keep
the external API - this could be such a case.
  That said, I agree that such implementation details could still have
been used by rdeps and therefore it would be prudent to do the Java
eqv. of an "ABI" bump for a C library.

~Niels