The change was done on purpose. If you were building with either system ICU or manually patching to get the right data file you'd produce yourself, you weren't getting something that works.
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The change was done on purpose. If you weren't building with either system ICU or manually patching to get the right data file you'd produce yourself, you weren't getting something that works.