From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 02:49:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C54716A417 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:49:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ota@j.email.ne.jp) Received: from mail.asahi-net.or.jp (mail2.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C8C13C458 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:49:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ota@j.email.ne.jp) Received: from localhost (cpe-24-193-0-128.nj.res.rr.com [24.193.0.128]) by mail.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482CD52D14; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:29:04 +0900 (JST) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:28:57 -0500 From: Yoshihiro Ota To: oscartheduck@gmail.com 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Atanas Gendov Subject: Re: Problems with icu - 3.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:49:43 -0000 On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0700 James 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