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icu 79.1~rc-1

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DescriptionInternational Components for Unicode

ICU is a C++ and C library that provides robust and full-featured Unicode and locale support. This package contains the runtime libraries for ICU.

MaintainerLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
Changed ByLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
Sponsorgcs@debian.org
Distributionexperimental
Architectureany all
Popcon Installs121692
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/icu
Uploaded2 hours ago

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.changes◂
Changed-ByLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecturesource amd64 all
Distributionexperimental
DateSat, 26 Sep 2026 02:03:14 +0200
Sourceicu
Version79.1~rc-1
Changelog◂
icu (79.1~rc-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New major upstream release candidate version.
   * Disable getRunsBufferOverflow self-test due to segfault on 32 bit
     architectures.
   * Update copyright file.
.dsc◂
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listicu-devtools deb libdevel optional arch=any
icu-doc deb doc optional arch=all
libicu-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libicu79 deb libs optional arch=any
Sectionlibdevel
debian/copyright◂
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
X-Format: https://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5
Upstream-Name: ICU
Upstream-Contact: https://icu.unicode.org/contacts
Source: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu

Files: *
Copyright: Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc.
License: Unicode-DFS-2016

Files: source/install-sh
Copyright: 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
License: MIT
 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, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
 permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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 .
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 in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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 LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
 OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
 WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Files: source/tools/tzcode/*.c
 source/tools/tzcode/private.h
 source/tools/tzcode/tzfile.h
Copyright: 1996-2009 Arthur David Olson
License: public-domain
 These files were granted to the public domain.

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2005-2015 Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>,
           2015-     Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
License: GPL-3
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation version 3 of the License.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
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 along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
 License version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

License: Unicode-DFS-2016
 UNICODE LICENSE V3
 .
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 .
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