Remove add-ons mechanism

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Oct 5 12:54:00 GMT 2017


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



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