ICU version 3.6 has been released. I would like permission to upload it to unstable and cause an ICU library transition. These source packages contain binary packages that depend upon libicu34:
boost ibm-3270 openoffice.org parrot xerces27 Only boost and xerces27 above are libraries. Hopefully their dependencies are set up suitably to not themselves build depend upon libicu34-dev. In any case, the ICU source interfaces appear to not have non-compatible API changes, though I haven't rigorously verified this. It seems likely though that this transition will just be a question of updating build dependencies on the dependent packages. I would stay on top of this transition and be willing/able to NMU packages as needed. The biggest and most visible package here is openoffice.org, but that package seems to be well-maintained. Also, I emailed the maintainers of all these packages to alert them to the fact that there may be an ICU transition, and I uploaded a beta version of ICU 3.6 to experimental. May I proceed with the transition? I'm on vacation right now, but if I get the go-ahead, I may do the upload Tuesday evening after I get home, or perhaps later in the week. Since ICU releases infrequently and this version of ICU includes a number of added features including support for the latest Unicode spec, I am hoping we can get this released in time for etch. The current version of ICU in unstable has never been in a stable release. -- Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
