Kevin Kofler wrote: > Björn Persson wrote: > > IDNA2008 isn't fully compatible with IDNA2003, and therefore the > > switch should be done only after application authors have assessed > > the impact on their particular application. Parallel-installable > > libraries allow them to do this and switch over one application at > > a time. What you're proposing would enforce the change, causing > > applications to suddenly map some domains differently before > > upstream authors are prepared, as if LibIDN2 had been released as > > simply a new version of LibIDN. > > Yet this is exactly what the proposed Fedora feature to patch all > applications amounts to, too. Just with a lot more work for us > packagers. To me it looks like an attempt to recruit packagers to help promoting the change _upstream_. Look at what packagers are actually asked to do: > Propose patches to convert to libidn2, and notify upstream about it. Note well the words "propose", "notify" and "upstream". How is that equivalent to blindly enforcing the change without assessing the impact? Björn Persson
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