Package: libicu-dev Version: 63.1-6 Followup-For: Bug #920900 Dear Maintainer,
The icu-config script has been deprecated, however, it has not yet been made obsolete. Hence, it should should still be included in order not to break legacy code still relying on it. As it has been deprecated only recently, only code under active development has had time to adapt. Other code will be broken and it is not at all trivial to fix such issues when the aim is to only compile a code package. I stumbled upon the same error as the previous poster while trying to build LTFS support using RHEL sources. I got around the issue by building libicu-dev from sources and manually tweaking the ./configure rules by adding --enable-icu-config. Nevertheless it did not get included in the .deb package so I ended up copying it manually from the build directory to /usr/bin. Clearly this is not a proper way to install missing utilities. I would expect deprecated features to remain available as legacy code won't know of anything better. It is essential to avoid breaking something that works if at all possible. Only after a feature is genuinely obsolete should it be scheduled for removal in a few years time. Maybe a utility like icu-config could be ultimately converted into a wrapper running pkg-config internally? M Santala -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libicu-dev depends on: ii icu-devtools 63.1-6 ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.28-10 ii libicu63 63.1-6 libicu-dev recommends no packages. Versions of packages libicu-dev suggests: ii icu-doc 63.1-6 -- no debconf information
