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Bug#820816: stop using gnulib
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Antoine Beaupré |
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Bug#820816: stop using gnulib |
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Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:01:25 -0400 |
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On 2016-07-20 12:54:47, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 1) I recall Debian has granted an exception for gnulib. Gnulib is used
> in many core packages such as GNU coreutils, inetutils, tar, awk, etc.
I can imagine. :)
> 2) Using libunistring does not work for libidn I'm afraid. The IDNA
> specifications are written to require Unicode 3.2.0. IDNA is hard coded
> to that Unicode version. Using modern Unicode libraries will make the
> library return incorrect data, since the Unicode algorithms have changed
> in backwards incompatible ways since 3.2.0.
>
> I hope this clarifies. I'm not sure there is anything more we can do,
> unless you point to more concrete issues that can be patched.
I was afraid of something like this. I don't see how this can be
fixed, indeed.
Thanks for looking into this, it was worth a try!
a/
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