Re: icu update to 77.1

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

nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 07:28:09PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> I plan on committing the attached update for icu to 77.1 (with a
>> recursive bump for the updated shlib version) next week.
>
> fwiw, most unstable package repositories seem to be shipping 76.1,
> including debian unstable, gentoo, macports, etc.
>
> Maybe wait a bit longer.

In general, I think we should be slower rather than fast to do updates
that seem to have any issues.  I don't mean to go full LTS and be wicked
old. but I think there is great merit in letting others take the pain
first, and see depending packages that deal with the new version
released.