portupgrade and ICU libraries

[Jung-uk Kim]

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On 2013-05-10 16:20:47 -0400, Mikhail T. wrote:
> Gentlemen!
> 
> Every time I do an upgrade, I get bitten by the same problem -- all
> of the software linked with libraries installed by devel/icu stops
> working.
> 
> Today I finally understood why... Although portupgrade duly backs
> up the old libraries under lib/compat/pkg, it only preserves the
> files (such as libicutu.so.48.1.1), and not the symbolic links
> (such as libicutu.so.48).
> 
> The proper fix for this problem should include both:
> 
> 1. portupgrade should ensure, the library.so./VERSION/ continues
> to exist -- even when that in itself is a symlink 2. icu port
> should install library.so./VERSION/ as the file -- rather than a 
> symlink to library.so./VERSION/./MINOR/./MICRO/, as it currently
> does
> 
> Even if the icu-maintainers (CC-ed) change the icu port do comply
> with the 2., there may still be other ports, that are not so
> compliant, so portupgrade needs to implement 1. anyway...

We do #2 to comply with its packaging guide line:

http://userguide.icu-project.org/packaging#TOC-ICU-Versions

Jung-uk Kim
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