On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:06:38PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > After a private discussion with Ivo, we decided that I will take over > maintenance of the icu packages. The only reverse dependencies that > are part of the archive are xerces packages which I also maintain. > The version of ICU in debian is version 2.1. The current version is > 3.2. Debian also includes version 2.8 as the icu28 package, but this > package will probably be removed after 3.2 is uploaded and reverse > dependencies of icu28 are moved back to the ICU package. (Its only > non-trivial reverse dependency is the "mail-notification" package.)
> There are API and ABI changes between 2.1 and 3.2 (not surprisingly) > and also between 2.8 and 3.2. There is also a C++ library here. > Given that nothing urgently needs version 3.2, would it be better to > wait to do the ICU library transition until after the C++ transition > is done? Do we have a time frame on that yet? Yes, you should wait. The ftp team has imposed a freeze on new C++ libraries, so uploading now wouldn't get it into the archive anyway. > Please let me know if I should have posted this to debian-devel. I > posted it here because it pertains to a library transition and a C++ > transition. Probably should have been on -devel. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
