Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the icu package as I no longer have time to maintain the package.
The package description is: ICU is a C++ and C library that provides robust and full-featured Unicode and locale support. This package contains programs used to manipulate data files found in the ICU sources and is a dependency of libicu-dev. End users would generally not need to install this package. Additional notes: ICU is an important library package with lots of reverse dependencies. Upstream does two binary-incompatible releases each year, so ICU needs frequent library transitions to be coordinated with the release team. Upstream is good about source compatibility so usually these are easy but sometimes they require some effort in coordination with other packages that use ICU. ICU gets lots of security incidents, so you have to be prepared to handle those. Usually someone else does most of the work since ICU is embedded in some high-profile projects. ICU has a complex internal build system with lots of code generators and other unconventional things. This tends to make things like multi-arch, security hardening, and other things that wrap around the build system more complicated than in most packages. Upstream is very responsive to bug reports and packaging considerations. The ICU packages are in good shape right now, but we are a couple of versions out of date now and there is some discussion over problems with its multi-arch compliance. Resolving these issues will require some effort. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150211102924.0187858716.qww314...@soup.appiancorp.com
