Bug#820816: stop using gnulib

2016-08-01 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2016-07-20 12:54:47, Simon Josefsson wrote: > 1) I recall Debian has granted an exception for gnulib. Gnulib is used > in many core packages such as GNU coreutils, inetutils, tar, awk, etc. I can imagine. :) > 2) Using libunistring does not work for libidn I'm afraid. The IDNA > specificatio

Bug#820816: stop using gnulib

2016-07-20 Thread Simon Josefsson
Antoine Beaupré writes: > Source: libidn > Severity: normal > > the use of gnulib in this package makes it significantly harder to > backport security patches around the different Debian suites. I have > spent a long time trying to figure out how to update the gnulib source > code in libidn for C

Bug#820816: stop using gnulib

2016-04-12 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Source: libidn Severity: normal the use of gnulib in this package makes it significantly harder to backport security patches around the different Debian suites. I have spent a long time trying to figure out how to update the gnulib source code in libidn for CVE-2015-2059, for example. it was prett