From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Fwd: [curl] Re: configure: --with-libidn or --with-libidn2? Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 12:00:56 -0500 Message-ID: <20161226170056.GB9351@jasmine> References: <87bmvylrk5.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cLYdz-0002bO-PJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2016 12:01:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cLYdv-0006kl-0A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2016 12:01:03 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:60705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cLYdu-0006kP-TS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2016 12:00:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bmvylrk5.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 01:59:22PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > It seems as if curl can be build with libidn2 now and they have > addressed the bug which existed for a while. I will check with > upstream and send in a fix for our curl package once I am sure > that the old bug has been fixed. Which bug? In November 2016, the curl maintainers asked packagers to not link curl with libidn or libidn2 at all, due to security issues: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-11/0033.html