Update to icu4c-70.1

general/genlib/icu.xml

@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
   <!ENTITY icu-download-http
            "https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-&icu-major;-&icu-minor;/icu4c-&icu-major;_&icu-minor;-src.tgz">
   <!ENTITY icu-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY icu-md5sum        "9403db682507369d0f60a25ea67014c4">
+  <!ENTITY icu-md5sum        "65287befec8116d79af23a58aa50c60d">
   <!ENTITY icu-size          "24 MB">
-  <!ENTITY icu-buildsize     "354 MB (add 36 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY icu-time          "0.9 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 2.0 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY icu-buildsize     "367 MB (add 37 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY icu-time          "0.7 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 0.8 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="icu" xreflabel="ICU-&icu-version;">
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ make</userinput></screen>
         <seg>
           derb, escapesrc, genbrk, genccode, gencfu, gencmn, gencnval,
           gendict, gennorm2,
-          genrb, gensprep, icu-config, icuinfo, icupkg, makeconv, pkgdata, and
-          uconv
+          genrb, gensprep, icu-config, icuexportdata, icuinfo, icupkg,
+          makeconv, pkgdata, and uconv
         </seg>
         <seg>
           libicudata.so, libicui18n.so, libicuio.so,

general/genlib/js78.xml

@@ -186,15 +186,18 @@ make</userinput></screen>
       JSTESTS_EXTRA_ARGS="--timeout 300 --wpt=disabled"</command>.
       It's recommended to redirect the output into a log.
       <!-- recheck when ICU gets upgraded -->
-      <!-- ken: removed "are known to fail' becasue there are
+      <!-- ken: removed "are known to fail' because there are
        4096 known failures, these icu items are unexpected failures
        and I found the wording confusing  -->
       <!-- ken : For 78.4 this was 14 failures, I changed it to 10 for 78.5.
       On that machine with 78.6 still 10, but on another 14, both with similar
-      setup and locale. -->
+      setup and locale.
       Depending on the machine, either
       ten or fourteen JS tests related to locale and timezone fail,
       because of an issue with recent versions of <xref linkend="icu"/>.
+      pierre: Now, with icu-70.1, there are many more failures.-->
+      More than a hundred tests fail after upgrading to icu-70.1 or above,
+      out of a total of more than 40,000.
     </para>
     <para>
       To run the JIT test suite, issue:

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@
     </listitem>
     -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>November 7th, 2021</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Update to icu4c-70.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15639">#15639</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
       <para>November 6th, 2021</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>

packages.ent

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 <!ENTITY gsl-version                  "2.7">
 <!ENTITY gspell-version               "1.8.4">
 
-<!ENTITY icu-major                    "69">
+<!ENTITY icu-major                    "70">
 <!ENTITY icu-minor                    "1">
 <!ENTITY icu-patch                    "0">
 <!ENTITY icu-version                  "&icu-major;.&icu-minor;"><!-- .&icu-patch;-->