Björn Persson wrote:
> To me it looks like an attempt to recruit packagers to help promoting
> the change _upstream_.
There is no upstream for kdelibs3. It is a compatibility package, which is 2
major (first digit!) versions behind what upstream actually develops. We are
mostly only backporting security fixes and compilation fixes, so that legacy
applications keep running.
> 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?
It is when we are talking about a package like kdelibs3.
Kevin Kofler
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