Re: libtextstyle

[Bruno Haible]

Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote:
> BTW I am curious if there are any plans upstream to make libtextstyle
> optional upstream?

It is optional for the users, in the sense that users can pass the option
--color=never to the programs if they don't want color and text attributes.

> For example we (Fedora etc) considered libcroco unsafe since it seems
> unmaintained

It is not unmaintained. It lives in the gettext repository on savannah.
Security fixes can be applied there, if needed.

The only thing that has changed in 2019 is that the GNOME people decided
that they don't need libcroco any more and archived their repository.
Now gettext's copy is upstream. Patches get applied to it, e.g.
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55356> or
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=8ffdb05141de45d1d90494cec558d6657b270939

> and the package was dropped some releases ago.

That's a strange reaction to an upstream switch. When XFree86 became
unmaintained in 2008/2009, did Fedora give up on X11? No, Fedora switched
to the new upstream, namely X.org.

> It might make sense for gettext to stop building libtextstyle

No.

Bruno