On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 8:28 AM Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 06:05:38PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Obviously all these copies of essentially the same codebase are quite > > unfortunate, but mozjs and ICU seem to be sufficiently tightly-coupled > > that perhaps using its vendored version of ICU, at least temporarily, > > would be wiser than using the system copy? > > IMHO unblocking GNOME by temporarily making mozjs91 use its vendored > version until the ICU transition would be a reasonable approach. OK.
> > On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 18:26:41 +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > > > Speak of the devil. ICU 71.1 RC [1] just released. Final is expected > > > in April (two-three weeks). Would you two mind if I package it and ask > > > for testing of your packages (mozjs91 and nodejs) against it? > > > > Speaking only for myself, I'm flexible about timings for this; but Ubuntu > > has already done the ICU 70.1 transition and is currently using it for > > their next LTS release, and 2-3 weeks is probably too late for them to > > do another transition before their freeze deadline. Can you elucidate why Ubuntu would be forced to do the ICU 71.1 transition for their current to be released LTS version? > Does Ubuntu even care either way? I think no. > AFAIK both now and in 2-3 weeks is inside their freeze. Exactly. As Matthias noted, we were in contact and helped them a bit for doing the transition in Ubuntu. Blame me that I didn't start ICU transition at the same time for Debian. Now a status update in short. ICU 71.1 RC looks identical in API sense to ICU 70.1 meaning all packages fail or build the same way with both versions. I've packaged ICU 71.1 RC at least and restarted the rebuilds on i386 _and_ amd64 parallel. This slowed me down, but I can report the following. Package haskell-text-icu FTBFS, but the patch I've provided [1] still fixes the issue. As noted, mozjs78 and 0ad FTBFS in my pbuilder setups. Other packages are built with ICU 70.1 and I'm at level3 with ICU 71.1 RC. Already built ceph, chromium and postgresql-14 with it on that level. Any objection not to upload ICU 71.1 RC to experimental right now? Regards, Laszlo/GCS [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1004093
