Re: libidn2 build requires network + wget

[Simon Josefsson]

Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 1:43:36 PM CET Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Hi Tim. There is a separate git repo for libidn2's debian packaging, I
>> prefer it that way. There are hundreds of linux distributions and it
>> doesn't scale to support them all in upstream git repo.
>
> Hi Simon.
>
> That's fine for me - but as long as I don't have access to that repo, I have 
> to 
> work in my own copy of your Gitlab repo. Maybe you can give me some infos 
> about that Debian repo so at least I could stay in sync. I have an Alioth 
> guest account if that helps (rockdaboot-guest).

The Debian packaging for libidn and libidn2 are in "collab-maint":

https://alioth.debian.org/projects/collab-maint/
https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject

I will send the email to give you access.

>> We can't download anything during build, that has to be changed.
>> Debian policies forbids that, and it is generally a bad idea. We can include 
> the files if the licenses permit.
>
> Got it, will work on a solution this afternoon and let you know.
>
>> If we include the file, doing the checksum is less important.
>
> Meanwhile, I pushed a checksum solution to my repo (gitlab.com/rockdaboot) - 
> you are currently working on your repo, so maybe it is better if you merge/
> cherry-pick commits from me.

You should have commit access to the gitlab libidn2 repository!

https://gitlab.com/jas/libidn2

Feel free to push directly to master.

/Simon

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