On Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 2:12 AM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 18 Jul 2026, at 17:08, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
> > libidn2 default was switched to build non-GPL3 images conveniently by
> > switching to use ICU, where ICU is used by  embedded systems more
> commonly
> > than libidn2.
>
> Luckily the library is dual-licensed which should help this.  Only the
> -bin package is v3-only.
>
> Yes that certainly helps and maybe its fine to use libidn2 as default.
> However there are valid use cases in real products of using ICU since ICU
> is used system wide as well by many other applications in those systems and
> ICU data can be regenerated to contain just the data you need default
> kitchen sink of 30MB is not real usecase.


>  Switch back to libidn2 to respect upstream's opinion, and because ICU is
> > a monolithic dependency: this switch causes a minimal image containg
> > libpsl to shrink by ~30MB.
> >
> > Which production image are you building ?
>
> Production images are obviously hard to compare, so I was comparing
> minimal.  Basically ICU is large, libidn2 is likely already present (gnutls
> and curl use it by default), so if you’re not otherwise using ICU that’s a
> big saving.
>
> Ross
>
>
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