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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