ICU sweeping upgrade: bug or feature?

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 02/08/14 12:21, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Today I started some ports' upgrade and icu went from 50.1.2 to 52.1.
>
> As soon as this happened, lots of applications are not working anymore.
> E.G.
>
>> % firefox
>> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
>> Shared object "libicui18n.so.50" not found, required by "libxul.so"
>> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>
>
>
> While everything is recompiling (which will take several hours, since at
> least FireFox, ThunderBird and LibreOffice, among others, are affected),
> I am left wondering what went wrong: usually backup libraries are kept
> in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg...
>
> So:
>> # cd /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/
>> # ls |grep icu
>> libicudata.so.50.1.2
>> libicui18n.so.50.1.2
>> libicuio.so.50.1.2
>> libicule.so.50.1.2
>> libiculx.so.50.1.2
>> libicutest.so.50.1.2
>> libicutu.so.50.1.2
>> libicuuc.so.50.1.2
>
> I have an idea:
>
>> # ln -s libicui18n.so.50.1.2 libicui18n.so.50
>
> Now:
>> % firefox
>> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
>> Shared object "libicuuc.so.50" not found, required by "libxul.so"
>> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>
> Hmmm... so, to make it short:
>> # ln -s libicudata.so.50.1.2 libicu
>> # ln -s libicudata.so.50.1.2 libicudata.so.50
>
> and Firefox and LibreOffice are starting again.
>
>
>
> Hope this can help someone.
> OTOH I would have expected this to happen automatically; shouldn't it?
>
>   bye & Thanks
>      av.
>
> P.S.
>> # uname -a
>> ... 10.0-RELEASE ... amd64

BTW LibreOffice was not bumped, so it would not be recompiled by 
"portupgrade -r icu" or similar.

  bye
	av.