Minimum system version of ICU

[Michael Stahl]

On 10.10.22 15:17, Chris Sherlock wrote:
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>> On 10 Oct 2022, at 11:56 pm, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 08/10/2022 19:57, Chris Sherlock wrote:
>>> What is the minimum version of ICU that a system must run if the distro decides not to use our internal ICU?
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>> At least the relevant configure.ac check appears to be still effectively at <https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/f20ed8959bc0a984177377a734d34f767653625b%5E!/> "Require icu 4.6 or later with system icu" (however rotten that may be in practice).
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> Thanks Stephan. Is it maybe time to increase the minimum version from this? That was released in 2010!

apparently our current baseline CentOS7 released with ICU version 50 (in 
2014), so i guess everything older than that is obsolete.

https://git.centos.org/rpms/icu/c/d9fa16f2a5dab6f9fb0a324dbfb71a46a8b743eb?branch=c7