[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#888908: using ICU 60.2: Failed test: basic10_4.m:166 ... negativeFormat used for -ve number

[Yavor Doganov]

forwarded 888908 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53035
tags 888908 + pending
thanks

Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 31.01.2018 08:51, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> >  Strange, I'm at least twice built the ICU reverse dependencies
> > successfully including gnustep-base.

That would have been with versions before 59.1-1.  The configure run
fails because the icu-config script has been removed.  You have to
pass --disable-icu-config to build gnustep-base.

> the comment above reads:
> 
>        /* Different versions of ICU use different formats, so we need to
>         * permit alternative results.
>         */

Yes, this test has been failing before with different versions of
ICU.  I proposed another patch upstream and would like to wait for
their comments before uploading.

What are the plans for the ICU transition?