[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#1092484: configure libxml2 without ICU support

[Andres Salomon]

On 1/8/25 13:15, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 02:41:44PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> The request to configure with ICU support stems from
>> https://bugs.debian.org/776254, issues with chromium.
>>
>> That bug report is from 2015, so maybe worth re-evaluating.
> 
> Let me CC Andres rather than Michael to ask for their input on the
> topic.

Thanks, I dropped Michael from the Cc list.

 From my understanding of https://bugs.debian.org/600069 , libxml2 
needed libicu in order to handle different types of encodings in pieces 
of xml. This doesn't sound like a chromium-specific problem; rather, 
something that libxml itself needs and a chromium user exposed back in 2015.

I don't know if, in the meantime, libxml has grown the ability to handle 
different encodings without relying on libicu. If it hasn't, then no 
longer building with libicu seems like it would quietly break things in 
various packages that use libxml..  If I'm wrong and this is somehow 
only relevant for chromium, please correct me.
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