Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc/icu

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

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

>> 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.

Ah.  well, I think that is probably separate from the 'always' section
which is about maintaining stability of pkgsrc, a concept not
necessarily related to quarterly.

>> 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.

vs lots of things not building, so that seems less serious?