Hi László, First of all, sorry for the delay. I saw there were several issues here and decided to postpone this a bit. Please see some questions below.
On 26/03/18 22:29, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > It will need a quick bootstrap. It needs to build without the Layout > Engine API, then the support library (icu-le-hb). Only then ICU can be > built with the Layout Engine API as the two libraries tied together. Can you explain that? Why can't you enable Layout Engine from the start? > Some patches are simply adding '--with-icu=/usr' to the configure > invocation in debian/rules. Others are for ICU detection in the > configuration phase. No code change is needed in the packages. > If it matters, Ubuntu already transitioned with a bit different method. Are those changes and the large number of FTBFS because of the removal of icu-config? Can we keep it for now and file bugs at severity:important for the rdeps asking to fix the build when icu-config is removed? That should ease this transition. I would appreciate a number of failing rdeps and how many are due to ICU API changes and how many are due to icu-config removal. Cheers, Emilio
