Changeset 6c378f6 for general/genlib

Timestamp:

06/15/2023 01:20:46 PM (16 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, 12.2, gimp3, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/llvm18, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

ae69b0e

Parents:

cae21bc

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (06/15/2023 01:17:05 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (06/15/2023 01:20:46 PM)

Message:

icu: Reword major version update note

File:

• general/genlib/icu.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/genlib/icu.xml

@@ -37 +37 @@
     <warning>
       <para>
-        Upgrading this package to a new major version will require rebuilding
-        of many other packages. If some packages that use the librares built 
-        by icu4c-&icu-major; are rebuilt, they will use the new libraries 
-        while current packages will use the previous libraries.  If the 
-        linux application loader (/usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2) determines
-        that both the old and new libraries are needed, it will probably
-        cause an address conflict when resolving needed symbols and will 
-        result in the application failing.
+        Upgrading this package to a new major version (for example, from
+        72.1 to &icu-version;) will require rebuilding of many other
+        packages. If some packages that use the libraries built by
+        icu4c-&icu-major; are rebuilt, they will use the new libraries while
+        current packages will use the previous libraries.  If the Linux
+        application loader
+        (<filename class='libraryfile'>/usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</filename>)
+        determines that both the old and new libraries are needed, and a
+        symbol (name of data or function) exists in both versions of the
+        library, all references to the symbol will be resolved to the
+        version appearing earlier in the breadth-first sequence of the
+        dependency graph.  This may result in the application failing if
+        the definition of the data or the behavior of the function referred
+        by the symbol differs in two versions.  To avoid the issue, users
+        will need to rebuild every package linked to an ICU library as soon
+        as possible once ICU is updated to a new major version.
       </para>