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Re: What to do about libidn?
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Given that glibc's libidn add-on is not itself a public ABI or API,
> > dlopening an external library would seem a reasonable way of implementing
> > that getaddrinfo functionality.
>
> Would you prefer us to do that, or to drop AI_IDN support completely?
I don't have a view on that, beyond that it's not normal for us to drop a
supported ABI for existing binaries.
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