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and subject line Re: Bug#820816: stop using gnulib
has caused the Debian Bug report #820816,
regarding stop using gnulib
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Source: libidn
Severity: normal
the use of gnulib in this package makes it significantly harder to
backport security patches around the different Debian suites. I have
spent a long time trying to figure out how to update the gnulib source
code in libidn for CVE-2015-2059, for example. it was pretty painful!
using an external library like libunistring would be much better. i
understand that gnulib is necessary to port to certain environments
for the GNU system, but this here is Debian, we can certainly do
better!
this would also be in accordance with §4.13:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles
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I'm closing this as it appears there is nothing actionable to do here.
I'm happy to improve things if you have ideas, but I don't see any way
to improve the situation given the information we have in this report.
/Simon
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