Control: tags -1 confirmed On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 16:41:58 -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > I'd like to upgrade the version of ICU from 4.8 to 52. They changed > their version numbering scheme essentially multiplying everything by 10. > We skipped a few versions (49, 50, 51) because of the freeze before > wheezy. This is the first major version to be released since Wheezy. > (A major ICU version is released every six months.) ICU 52 should be > source compatible but not binary compile with ICU 4.8. Many bugs have > been fixed since ICU 4.8. I have basically done a library transition > approximately every other ICU version, and they have all gone smoothly > up to this point. The dev package name is versionless (libicu-dev) so > this transition should be able to be done with just a forced rebuild of > ICU's reverse dependencies. > Please go ahead, and let us know when icu 52 is installed on all archs so we can start the rebuilds. Thanks, Julien
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