[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#962464: Remove ICU dependency

[Bastian Germann]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 14:54:42 +0200 Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer at aevum.de> 
wrote:
> Package: libxml2
> 
> Bug #776254 requested that libxml2 uses ICU for character set conversion 
> because of some unspecified issues with Chromium. This adds an otherwise 
> useless, multi-megabyte dependency (larger than libxml2 itself). I propose to 
> revert that change. This means that libxml2 will use iconv for character 
> conversion as before.
> 
> I'm sure that the Chromium issues can be worked around in another way. I'm 
> also disappointed that the Chromium developers never reached out to the 
> libxml2 maintainers.

I second this request. Alternatively, it would be great to have a build 
profile that excludes ICU.