[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs x3270

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Mon Jan 10 17:05:54 CET 2011


On 1/10/11, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am 07.01.2011 um 20:36 schrieb Philip Brown:
>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>
>> wrote:
>>> This is a complete rework of libicu. The current maintainer (James)
>>> has given his ok to this update.
>>>
>>> The legacy *.so.36 which was in use by tin and x3270 has been deprecated
>>> and both CSWtin and CSWx3270 have been renewed to the latest standards.
>>
>> interestingly.. my checkpkg does not detect x3270 using libicu at all...
>> mistake?
>
> Nope, from the Release Notes:
>
>  <li>The ICU library is no longer used, and ICU <b>.cnv</b> files are no
> longer
>   included with the code.</li>

>> It also complains about a metric ton of /usr/local references, in
>> manpage and .html files
>
> This may be. I just rebuilt it to renew the dependency to libuci and
> drop the old lib. Unfortunately I can't test it as I don't have access
> to a mainframe or something and I alreada spent much more porting
> time than I had intended for a courtesy update :-/
> As you see from the release notes there have been lots of changes to
> the software and the previous package had several tweaks which I needed
> to check.


Urrrg..
well, i really hate doing this. but in the interests of "new package
is *much* better than old package" (not merely an upgrade, but lots of
package-side cleanup), I'll accept and release it.


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