ICU version in Ubuntu 20.04

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Hi Shane, I didn't see a reply on-list, perhaps there is a thread in the
background. Thank you for reaching out, and in case you haven't had a
response, Dean will know the right person to consider the matter. It's
late but not *that* late, the question will really be backwards
compatibility and testing given that the current libicu63 has 140 things
that depend on it. Given your comments on stability, that seems a
reasonable thing to consider.

Mark


On 10/01/2020 04:42, Shane Carr wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu developers,
>
> I'm a member of the ICU TC (International Components for Unicode). 
> Developers frequently get ICU from the apt-get package "libicu-dev".
>
> We have a special ICU release coming out in March/April, ICU 66.  This
> release is "special" because it has an emphasis on stability and
> compatibility with ICU 65, released in October, except that it also
> includes the latest Unicode 13 standard, which will be released around
> the same time.  Our plan with ICU 66 is so that platforms like Android
> can adopt this release in a relatively late stage with minimal disruption.
>
> I wanted to ask whether Ubuntu 20.04 would also consider picking up
> ICU 66 as libicu-dev.  Since it is an LTS release, users would benefit
> from having Unicode 13 available in their server applications over the
> lifetime of Ubuntu 20.04.
>
> Shane
>
>

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