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On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:35:01PM +0100, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: |
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> 2012-10-28 22:14:15 Mike Gilbert napisa??(a): |
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> > This library is used for processing Unicode text in several high-profile |
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> > packages, including Chromium and other Webkit browsers, PHP, boost, and |
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> > many more. |
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> > Fair warning: ICU tends to break several packages with every major |
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> > release, so thorough testing is needed when bumping it. |
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> > |
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> > This package is currently being maintained by proxy by a former Gentoo |
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> > developer, Arfrever. Given this package's potential to cause problems, |
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> > this situation is not ideal. |
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> > |
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> > It would be really great if an active Gentoo developer would step |
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> > forward and take care of this one. |
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> I am actively maintaining ICU and test many reverse dependencies with new versions of ICU |
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> (using a not package.masked version of GCC). |
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> Members of proxy-maintainers team or others actively commit fixes/updates, so there |
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> is no need to change current situation. |
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Yeah... I don't agree with that. Floppym wouldn't be looking |
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for a new maintainer if that was accurate. |
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The package has been cranky enough in parallel with revdeps breaking |
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everytime it's bumped that this needs a dev watching it, rather than |
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whichever random proxy-maintainer member snags that version. |
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Anyone got the spare cycles for it? |
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~harring |
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