Re: Do not update textproc/icu to 58.1

[Ryo ONODERA <dcake%sea.plala.or.jp@localhost>]

Hi,

Sorry for very late reply.

With icu 58.1, Firefox 50.0.2 is very unstable for me.
I cannot open new webpage (not in cache).
However I have no immediate segfault anymore.

From: "S.P.Zeidler" <spz%NetBSD.org@localhost>, Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:13:14 +0000

> Hi Ryo-san,
> 
> Thus wrote Ryo ONODERA (ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost):
> 
>> ucol_getKeywordValuesForLocale() from icu 58.1 does not work like before
>> and www/firefox gets segfault. For example, if you input a character in
>> a search box in Firefox UI, you will get immediate segfault.
>> 
>> Please do not update textproc/icu to 58.1.
>> 
>> I will investigate this problem and report this to upstream.
>> Of course someone can find a resolution, please sent it upstream.
>> I suspect the icu ticket #12520.
> 
> Is this fixed with 49.0.2? Or is it depending on the specific locale?
> 
> I assume "Find in page" qualifies as search box, and that works fine
> for me with this:
> 
> 103% pkg_info | grep icu
> icu-58.1            Robust and full-featured Unicode services
> 104% pkg_info | grep firefox
> firefox-49.0.2nb1   Web browser with support for extensions (version 49)
> 105% echo $LC_CTYPE
> de_DE.UTF-8
> 
> I'd not describe it as "perfectly stable" but 49 isn't great regarding
> this with icu-57.1 either.
> 
> icu has 510 dependents and I'm currently checking if all still compile,
> don't exactly expect an update tomorrow, even if the firefox issue is
> fixed. :-7
> 
> regards,
> 	spz

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