ICU 3.8 transition coming up

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 08:46:43PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> 
> As soon as the current icu 3.6 version transitions to lenny (should be
> about three days), I intend to upload ICU 3.8 to sid.  Once this is
> done, you will have to change your packages BuildDepends to depend on
> libicu-dev instead of libicu36-dev.  Now that I am removing the soname
> From the lib dev package, future icu transitions should be achievable
> with binary NMUs, but for this time, the explicit change will be
> required.  ICU 3.8 has been in experimental for some time, and ICU 3.8
> is supposed to be source compatible with ICU 3.6, so I hope that the
> transition to go smoothly and quickly.  I'll report bugs to any
> depending packages that have not uploaded a new version within several
> days of the upload.  I'll send another message out when I upload (but
> I will not copy debian-devel on that one).

webkit already build depends on libicu-dev.

Mike