libicu4j is out of date

[Paul Tagliamonte]

Hello libicu4j maintainers,

I'm contacting you to help un-block some items for the upgrade of
Eclipse in Sid, and I figured an email to the Uploaders might help get
this resolved a bit faster :) I also CC'd pkg-java, un case anyone
else has some thoughts as well.

libicu4j is a scitch out of date (upstream: 4.8[1], downstream: 4.2),
and there seems to be a few issues.

Some of the changes are fairly involved -- and lots of changes to the
build process, and they've seemed to drop the step we've been using to
have this package be useful to Eclipse. Some basic tests that I've
tried have only resulted in a FTBFS, so I'm guessing the problem is a
bit more in-depth then a simple upgrade.

If there's anything at all I can do to help you resolve this, please
let me know!

Cheers!
Paul

[1]: http://site.icu-project.org/download

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