Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc/icu

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

"Thomas Klausner" <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> icu: downgrade to 75.1
>
> The world is not ready for 76.1 yet:
> - c++17 requirement (I think)
> - more libraries need to be explicitly listed

I am not shocked about icu :-).

In general, I think some upstreams are too aggressive, and that we
should probably wait to upgrade until most depending packages are ok
with it.  There is of course a line to be drawn; at some point a
depending package is unmaintained if it hasn't had a formal release that
works with the latest icu.  But if it's more than handful, then I'd say
the new icu is unreasonably aggressive.

I think it's appropriate to move icu to the "always approval" section,
from the "after february 15" section of quarterly.


A related question is how much it hurts to be a bit trailing edge on
icu.  I suspect the answer is not much.