Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:28:57 -0500 From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> To: oscartheduck@gmail.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Atanas Gendov <atanas.gendov@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Problems with icu - 3.8 Message-ID: <20080217212857.c4df5d25.ota@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <1203283417.6223.3.camel@pclmills> References: <36e46ac80802171226p6a18997ao21e03b626425695e@mail.gmail.com> <47B8A3B2.8090202@infracaninophile.co.uk> <1203283417.6223.3.camel@pclmills>
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0700 James <oscartheduck@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:14 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Atanas Gendov wrote: > > > Greetings to all from FreeBSD Ports!!! :) > > > I have some problems with icu - 3.8. After portupgrade of icu and some > > > others packages I can't start Gnome. Because of Gnome needs module from icu > > > - 3.6. Unfortunately there is no new port for gdm which doesn't have depends > > > on icu-3.6. > > > > Lots of people are getting bitten by the effects of the bump in the > > libicu* shlib ABI version numbers -- there really should be a note > > in UPDATING about it. It affects all sorts of different packages -- > > I've even got one system where it took out OpenLDAP. > > Do you know who to ask for the note? I was bitten by it, but fortunately there > had just been a large thread in questions@ about it. It does seem to be a > common issue. > > James Why are so many people are bitten by this? Is that the jobs of port-upgrading tool to safe copy these libraries to compat so that all programs using the old libraries works? Hiro
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