Re: Upgrade ICU to 52.1 with soname bump

[Eike Rathke]

Hi,

On Saturday, 2014-01-25 09:47:28 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

>  > If time permits I'd like to do an upgrade of ICU to 52.1
> next week,
>  > which leads to the usual soname bump.
>  > 
>  > As quite a lot of packages are affected by this, is anyone objecting
>  > and can point out a better time for the upgrade? 
I was carried away with LibreOffice release and then FOSDEM, so this got
postponed.

>  Hum... perhaps I am missing something, but I don't see anything
> that is
>  directly affected. There's no packages that buildrequire or require icu?
>  Or am I looking at the wrong package?
>  
>  I guess you mean libicu? 
Yes, sure, with ICU I referred the entire suite, the important part here
being libicu and all its libs.

>  Are there any changes in the 50->52.1 jump that would need
>  patches/changes? Or should it just mostly be a rebuild? 
Should be a rebuild only.

>  Do you have any provenpackager(s) who can help you rebuild things?
Maybe, but he's already overloaded ;)

>  > If not, I'll probably announce it on Monday and do the
> upgrade on
>  > Wednesday.
>  
>  Seems fine. 
So maybe next week..

  Eike

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