On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:32:52PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ICU 3.8 was released yesterday. I've had a "draft" release, as they > call it, in experimental for a while. ICU 3.8 is supposed to be > source compatible with earlier releases, but I have changed the dev > package to icu-dev instead of putting the soname in the version > number. I'd like to go ahead and upload 3.8 to unstable this > weekend. This will force a library transition, but the ICU transition > is pretty small. If I do that now, will it interfere with anything > that's nearing completion? If so, I can wait, but if not, I'd like to > go ahead and do that. xerces 2.8.0 is also out, and I'd just as soon > have my first upload to unstable of xerces 2.8.0 depend on the new > ICU. Thanks. > > (I know that I don't *have* to ask for permission to do a library > transition, but I don't want to upset the apple cart if some big group > of packages is just about ready to go....)
FYI, it will make webkit FTBFS, but that's an issue I already know and have a patch for. And I was planning on an new upload soon anyways. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
