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+package:
+  name: icu
+  version: 71.1
+  epoch: 0
+  description: "International Components for Unicode library"
+  target-architecture:
+    - all
+  copyright:
+    - paths:
+      - "*"
+      attestation: TODO
+      license: MIT
+  dependencies:
+    runtime:
+
+environment:
+  contents:
+    keyring:
+      - https://packages.wolfi.dev/os/wolfi-signing.rsa.pub
+    repositories:
+      - https://packages.wolfi.dev/os
+    packages:
+      - busybox
+      - build-base
+      - ca-certificates-bundle
+  environment:
+    ICU_DATA_FILTER_FILE: "./data-filter-en.json"
+
+pipeline:
+  - uses: fetch
+    with:
+      # TODO: cannot use package.version here since "71-1"/"71_1" are different from "71.1"
+      uri: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-71-1/icu4c-71_1-src.tgz
+      expected-sha512: 1fd2a20aef48369d1f06e2bb74584877b8ad0eb529320b976264ec2db87420bae242715795f372dbc513ea80047bc49077a064e78205cd5e8b33d746fd2a2912
+  - runs: |
+      # JSON-ified version of https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/main/icu/data-filter-en.yml?id=8db8f1a746ebc18ac3b56c91ed14224e424f57ec
+      echo '{"localeFilter":{"filterType":"locale","includeChildren":false,"includelist":["en_US","en_GB"]},"featureFilters":{"brkitr_dictionaries":"exclude","brkitr_rules":{"filterType":"regex","excludelist":["^.*_cj$"]},"coll_tree":{"filterType":"language","includelist":["be","cs","de","el","en","es","ff","fr","ha","hu","ig","it","kk","ms","nl","pl","pt","ro","ru","tr","uk","xh","zu"]},"conversion_mappings":"exclude","stringprep":{"excludelist":["rfc3722","rfc3920node","rfc3920res"]}},"resourceFilters":[{"categories":["coll_tree"],"rules":["-/collations/emoji","-/collations/private-unihan"]},{"categories":["translit"],"rules":["-/","+/%%Parent","+/%%ALIAS","+/*/ASCII-Latin","+/*/Latin-ASCII","+/*/Accents-Any","+/*/Any-Accents","+/*/Publishing-Any","+/*/Any-Publishing","+/*/Cyrillic-Latin","+/*/Cyrl-Latn","+/*/Latin-Cyrillic","+/*/Latn-Cyrl","+/*/Greek-Latin","+/*/Grek-Latn","+/*/Greek-Latin/BGN","+/*/el-el_Latn/BGN","+/*/Latin-Greek","+/*/Latn-Grek","+/*/Russian-Latin/BGN","+/*/ru-ru_Latn/BGN","+/*/Latin-Russian/BGN","+/*/ru_Latn-ru/BGN","+/*/Ukrainian-Latin/BGN","+/*/uk-uk_Latn/BGN","+/*/de-ASCII","+/*/de-t-de-d0-ascii"]}],"collationUCAData":"implicithan"}' > ./source/data-filter-en.json
+  - uses: autoconf/configure
+    with:
+      dir: source
+      opts: |
+        --build=$(uname -m)-pc-linux-gnu \
+        --host=$(uname -m)-pc-linux-gnu \
+        --sysconfdir=/etc \
+        --with-data-packaging=archive \
+        --disable-samples \
+        --enable-static \
+        --mandir=/usr/share/man
+  - uses: autoconf/make-install
+    with:
+      dir: source
+  - uses: strip
+
+subpackages:
+  - name: icu-dev
+    description: icu development headers
+    pipeline:
+      - uses: split/dev
+    dependencies:
+      runtime:
+        - icu