On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 06:05:38PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 17:38:43 +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) 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. > 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. Does Ubuntu even care either way? AFAIK both now and in 2-3 weeks is inside their freeze. > smcv cu Adrian
