Bug 25479

Summary:	lib64icu63 not sufficient for i.e syncthing-gtk. Can we have lib64icu64 or soon -65 ?
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://site.icu-project.org/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	icu-63.1-1.mga7.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Morgan Leijström 2019-09-28 00:27:57 CEST

lib64icu63 - Libraries for the International Components for Unicode

Description of problem:  Getting old?

Latest version of syncthing-gtk (as appimage) need lib64icu64
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22811#c2

lib64icu65 is planned for early October.

But i have no idea if we can have more than one version, or update without breaking stuff...?

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-09-28 10:25:59 CEST

Thank you for pointing this out.
I cannot find syncthing-gtk (nor sync_anything except for Evolution) as a Mageia package. If it is a 3rd-party package, not up to us. But the question is valid.

A *lot* of things require lib64icu63.
Passing to Shlomi as 'icu' packager for comment.

Source RPM: (none) => icu-63.1-1.mga7.src.rpm
Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2019-09-29 22:34:59 CEST

 - This comment is only about syncthing & syncthing-gtk -

In mga6 we had syncthing-gtk Bug 22811 and syncthing https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22405#c3 but they got unmaintained and dropped.

The workaround for syncthing-gtk was to use Appimage, which was also workaround for syncthing which got downloaded by the GUI syncthing-gtk which also provide a system tray status icon.

Syncthing provide a web UI you can use in i.e Firefox and is as good as syncthing-gtk, except it provide no tray icon nor downloads and installs syncthing.

syncthing can be compiled locally but the compiler install need almost 0,6 GB.

Currently i use a fedora package of syncthing, and the browser as UI.  There is some other alternative providing a tray icon, i have not tried yet.

Comment 3 David Walser 2019-10-18 20:51:25 CEST

Well, the answer to the question in the bug title is absolutely not.  We don't update system libraries with major bumps (especially heavily used core libraries like icu) unless we absolutely have to.  If you're using a third party package, you'll need to rebuild it.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID