[ANNOUNCEMENT] test: icu-59.1-1

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2017-04-16 12:20, Ken Brown wrote:
> This is an update to the latest upstream release.  There are major
> changes in this release that will make ICU easier to use but require
> changes in projects using ICU.  In particular, ICU now requires C++11,
> so packages using ICU may need to add -std=c++11 or -std=gnu++11 to
> CXXFLAGS.  See
>
>   http://site.icu-project.org/download/59
>
> for further details.
>
> I'm making this a test release to give other maintainers time to
> adapt to the changes.  If no problems are reported within a few weeks,
> I'll promote it to current.

I can see this being problematic for some packages.  We may want to wait 
for this to hit Fedora rawhide first so that patches for dependent 
packages are readily available.

-- 
Yaakov