2012/10/29 Brian Harring <ferri...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:35:01PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis > wrote: >> 2012-10-28 22:14:15 Mike Gilbert napisa??(a): >> > This library is used for processing Unicode text in several high-profile >> > packages, including Chromium and other Webkit browsers, PHP, boost, and >> > many more. >> > >> > Fair warning: ICU tends to break several packages with every major >> > release, so thorough testing is needed when bumping it. >> > >> > This package is currently being maintained by proxy by a former Gentoo >> > developer, Arfrever. Given this package's potential to cause problems, >> > this situation is not ideal. >> > >> > It would be really great if an active Gentoo developer would step >> > forward and take care of this one. >> >> I am actively maintaining ICU and test many reverse dependencies with new >> versions of ICU >> (using a not package.masked version of GCC). >> >> Members of proxy-maintainers team or others actively commit fixes/updates, >> so there >> is no need to change current situation. > > Yeah... I don't agree with that. Floppym wouldn't be looking > for a new maintainer if that was accurate. > > The package has been cranky enough in parallel with revdeps breaking > everytime it's bumped that this needs a dev watching it, rather than > whichever random proxy-maintainer member snags that version. > > Anyone got the spare cycles for it? If Arfrever keeps maintaining it for a while, I will take it.
Christoph > > ~harring > -- Christoph Junghans http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/
