# wrong bug tag 447735 - wontfix # reassigning didn't work (typo in first message) reassign 447799 libicu38 severity 447799 serious # right bug. tag 447799 wontfix thanks
You tagged the wrong bug. Fullquoting for 447799's sake. (I care about this because 447735 is not wontfix but I need a new OOo upload to fix this) > Thanks for the report. While I recognize the seriousness of > accidental ABI changes (in fact, my start in Debian was managing a > tiff transition caused by just this issue), I don't think there was > ever any guarantee that this type of breakage wouldn't occur between > d01 and the final 3.8 release. If this were an update to unstable, > > I'd back it out or otherwise take some corrective action, but for this > particular instance, I think the best course of action would be to > simply rebuild any affected packages. I definitely don't want to > modify the debian ICU packages to use a different soname because of an > incompatibrility introduced that was confined to the experimental > release and that occurred between a prerelease and the final release. > Since there is no transition from experimental to unstable, there is > no risk of contaminating unstable or testing because of this problem. Except for people installing OOo 2.3.0 from experimental because 2.2.1-x is not really supported by me anymore. Regards, Rene
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