Bug#820816: stop using gnulib

[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
> specifications are written to require Unicode 3.2.0.  IDNA is hard coded
> to that Unicode version.  Using modern Unicode libraries will make the
> library return incorrect data, since the Unicode algorithms have changed
> in backwards incompatible ways since 3.2.0.
>
> I hope this clarifies.  I'm not sure there is anything more we can do,
> unless you point to more concrete issues that can be patched.

I was afraid of something like this. I don't see how this can be
fixed, indeed.

Thanks for looking into this, it was worth a try!

a/

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