My impression is the tests were cursory. If a package didn't FTBFS, it was presumed to be OK. Fortunately he provided a patch, so it is all better for postfix now. I just don't know what else might have been missed.
Scott K On Saturday, February 16, 2019 12:47:34 PM Ondřej Surý wrote: > The icu maintainer has properly communicated the change in the packaging for > the packages I maintain and depend on libicu-dev (and filled RC bugs for > it). > > I don’t know what has happened that postfix was missed. > > Ondrej > -- > Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> > > > On 16 Feb 2019, at 10:33, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote: > > > > Postfix uses the presence of the icu-config binary to detect if libicu is > > available and thus if SMTPUTF8 support should be compiled in or not. > > > > Unfortunately, the icu package recently dropped this file, so when postfix > > was binNMU'ed it lost SMTPUTF8 (see #921075). > > > > I don't know if any other packages depend on this or not, so heads-up. If > > you maintain a package the build-depends on libicu-dev, you might want to > > check if it's broken now. > > > > I've asked the icu maintainer to put it back (#922451). > > > > Scott K
