On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:37:37AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > this bug has been open for nearly 10 years now. In the meantime, > enabling IDN for iputils is as simple as specifying USE_IDN=yes in the > make commandline. I’ve rebuilt iputils on my machine with USE_IDN=yes > and can confirm that it works:
I looked into this, but it's unfortunately not quite that simple. iputils-ping is Priority:important, and thus can't depend on libidn11, which has a lower priority. (cf. debian-policy section 2.5) Additionally, the ping binaries should not depend on libraries in /usr/lib, since /usr/ is not guaranteed to be present at boot. (ping6 currently violates this by depending on some gnutls libraries, which is a bug.) noah
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