Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc/icu

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 09:06:24AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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.

Not sure about the c++17 (I didn't find it documented in the Changes,
but some headers use string_view now and that seems to be c++17), the
other change was a cleanup to avoid linking against too many libraries
- but some programs seem to have relied on that and now need to do
that themselves.

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

Probably. But please note that since there were no pkgsrc-releng
volunteers, we'll probably be switching to yearly branches after
2024Q4.

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

We'll be missing Unicode 16 support and some new locales.
 Thomas