Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Hi RMs, I'd like to upload ICU 63.1 which was recently released for Buster. The packaging already bootstrapped with icu-le-hb (Layout Engine using the HarfBuzz library) in experimental. Rebuilding of dependent packages are in progress. I can report the following so far. Level 1 widelands FTBFS, but I've a patch. Level 2 boost1.63 FTBFS due to an unrelated, Pyhon 3.7 problem probably related to the already reported case in #902921 [1]. I think it's going to be removed thus didn't investigated further. hfst-ospell FTBFS and while I've a patch, it's already fixed in its new, 0.5.1 release. mozjs60 FTBFS due to an unrelated problem, confirmed in a clean Sid environment as well. nodejs FTBFS on x86 only and while I've a patch it will still fail to build due to its test suite problems already reported in #902512 [2]. openttd FTBFS on x86 only and upstream has a patch that can be backported easily. Other packages are in build testing. I don't expect too much problems and fixing build failures are quite easy. This has to be done with the Boost 1.67 transition which is already scheduled. I don't think this would delay that too much as my testing is done with the ICU transitioned boost1.67 package and boost-defaults set to it. It seems more and more applications start to use it as their ICU dependency for Unicode 11.0 support including Firefox and Chromium browser. Would be nice if Buster can be shipped with this ICU release. Regards, Laszlo/GCS [1] https://bugs.debian.org/902921 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/902512
