Bug#432350: ITP: libicu4j-java -- Library for unicode support and internalisation (fwd)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

as I announced formerly [1] I intent to push the obviousely completely
stalled maintenance of eclipse package.  (I wrote "obviosely" because nobody
of the people mentioned in the changelog issued the slightest sign of interest.)
There was some agreement that the upstream source package should not include
any separate projects and thus I intend to upload libicu4j-java.  This mail
is just to inform you about the ITP.

Kind regards

           Andreas.

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-java-maintainers/2008-December/018733.html

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:45:43 +0100
From: Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: ITP: libicu4j-java -- Library for unicode support and internalisation

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de>


* Package name    : libicu4j-java
   Version         : 3.8.1
   Upstream Author : IBM and contributors
* URL             : http://www.icu-project.org/
* License         : ICU4J license - ICU4J 1.8.1 and later
    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
    a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
    "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
    without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
    distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
    to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above
    copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in all copies of
    the Software and that both the above copyright notice(s) and this
    permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
   Programming Lang: C, C++, Java
   Description     : Library for unicode support and internalisation
  ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries for
  Unicode support, software internationalization and globalization
  (i18n/g11n). It grew out of the JDK 1.1 internationalization APIs, which
  the ICU team contributed, and the project continues to be developed
  for the most advanced Unicode/i18n support. ICU is widely portable and
  gives applications the same results on all platforms and between C/C++
  and Java software.

Remark: This software is currently provided inside the source package
  of eclipse.  There is no clear reason why it is tied into another packages
  upstream version.  Moreover there is a seperate package maintained in
  Ubuntu and thus it is simple to "steal" this package.  The packaging
  stuff is available in SVN via

Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-java/trunk/icu4j
Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-java/trunk/icu4j/?rev=0&sc=0

Kind regards

          Andreas.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)