Legwork to upgrade devel/icu

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:04:55PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:52:04PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
> > On 23 March 2012 01:27, Mel Flynn <mel at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> > > Hiya,
> > >
> > > was trying to see if 1.49 also has a problem on clang/i386 so I did the
> > > legwork to upgrade devel/icu. Unfortunately the problem persists, but
> > > I'm not able to find the cause. Either way, maybe this helps someone.
> > >
> > > diff is attached and build archive here:
> > > https://redports.org/buildarchive/20120323005457-06149/
> > 
> > Bapt, would you like me to take a look at this?
> > 
> > It'll probably need an exp-run, right? :(
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> It will require more than a exp-run, icu is known to have large inpact, for
> example we got some really weird bug with utf8 on libreoffice.
> 
> So 
> 1/ it needs an exp-run
> 2/ it will also need a call for tester and in particular trying to get feedback
> from LO users
> 
> And yes if you want to work on it, please go ahead, I just can't find anymore
> time to work on large ports for now :(.
> 
> regards,
> Bapt


FYI the new ICU is known to break libreoffice.

regards,
Bapt
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