Remove add-ons mechanism

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2017, 14:54:47 CEST schrieb Joseph Myers:
> > 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.
> 
> So what strategy is best to short-term fix bugs that have already been 
> addressed by libidn upstream?

Well, you can, as always, apply changes from whatever source that are not 
legally significant for copyright purposes.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com