Bug#777694: icu maintenance
László, I would be in strong support of your taking over icu. Feel free
to do it in conjunction with uploading security fixes that are pending.
Right now, last time I looked, there were not yet public patches for all
the issues, but I may be wrong. A general tip for ICU security patches:
Red Hat has to do them too. I have generally tried to make sure that the
version of ICU in a debian release corresponds with a version present in
at least one Red Hat release, but I hadn't planned for the 52 to be in
jessie; I just didn't have a way to get it updated. But you can often
grab security patches from other distributions. Also, upstream has
generally been pretty helpful with backporting patches when necessary.
Mostly I have found the patches backport pretty easily. Regardless, we
will also get stuck in a situation where upstream doesn't support some
version we have in a security supported version, which is one of the
main challenges of maintaining icu.
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Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
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