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Re: Remove add-ons mechanism
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge at gentoo dot org>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:54:47 +0000
- Subject: Re: Remove add-ons mechanism
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- References: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709281748010.30081@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <3368915.savkYuAEhr@porto> <d079cb89-4f6d-31a1-623e-277383d8fe3a@redhat.com>
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Their packaging is completely different from the libidn upstream releases.
And updating from the libidn upstream releases would be problematic given
that it's a non-FSF-assigned project that has changed license. (See
however the idea of enabling glibc to dlopen unmodified upstream libidn to
implement the functionality that uses glibc's copy of libidn, as a
possible replacement of that copy.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com