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Date:      Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0700
From:      James <oscartheduck@gmail.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Atanas Gendov <atanas.gendov@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Problems with icu - 3.8
Message-ID:  <1203283417.6223.3.camel@pclmills>
In-Reply-To: <47B8A3B2.8090202@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <36e46ac80802171226p6a18997ao21e03b626425695e@mail.gmail.com> <47B8A3B2.8090202@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:14 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> 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





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