Re: icu update to 77.1

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 07:20:25AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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.

+1 for letting others (who have more developers and more mindshare
to yell at upstreams) take the pain first.  :-)