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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:36:14
Message-Id: 201210282235.05134.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu by Mike Gilbert
1 2012-10-28 22:14:15 Mike Gilbert napisał(a):
2 > This library is used for processing Unicode text in several high-profile
3 > packages, including Chromium and other Webkit browsers, PHP, boost, and
4 > many more.
5 >
6 > Fair warning: ICU tends to break several packages with every major
7 > release, so thorough testing is needed when bumping it.
8 >
9 > This package is currently being maintained by proxy by a former Gentoo
10 > developer, Arfrever. Given this package's potential to cause problems,
11 > this situation is not ideal.
12 >
13 > It would be really great if an active Gentoo developer would step
14 > forward and take care of this one.
15
16 I am actively maintaining ICU and test many reverse dependencies with new versions of ICU
17 (using a not package.masked version of GCC).
18
19 Members of proxy-maintainers team or others actively commit fixes/updates, so there
20 is no need to change current situation.
21
22 --
23 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>