Bug#820816: marked as done (stop using gnulib)

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Your message dated Sun, 25 Sep 2016 19:05:53 +0200
with message-id <address@hidden>
and subject line Re: Bug#820816: stop using gnulib
has caused the Debian Bug report #820816,
regarding stop using gnulib
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact address@hidden
immediately.)


-- 
820816: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820816
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact address@hidden with problems
> --- Begin Message ---
>
>
>
> Subject: 
>
> stop using gnulib
>
>
>
>
> Date: 
>
> Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:45:21 -0400
>
>
>
>
> 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 pretty painful!
>
> using an external library like libunistring would be much better. i
> understand that gnulib is necessary to port to certain environments
> for the GNU system, but this here is Debian, we can certainly do
> better!
>
> this would also be in accordance with §4.13:
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.4
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
> 'stable'), (1, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> --- End Message ---

--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: Bug#820816: stop using gnulib Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 19:05:53 +0200

I'm closing this as it appears there is nothing actionable to do here.
I'm happy to improve things if you have ideas, but I don't see any way
to improve the situation given the information we have in this report.

/Simon

pgpfn4kqyuc3G.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

--- End Message ---