Re: libidn2 build requires network + wget

[Simon Josefsson]

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.

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.

If we include the file, doing the checksum is less important.

/Simon

Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden> skrev: (27 december 2016 12:30:23 CET)

On Monday, December 26, 2016 11:22:30 PM CET Simon Josefsson wrote:
 Hi Tim.  I released 0.12 and will try to upload to Debian, however I
 suspect it will fail because ./configure+make will attempt to download
 files from the Internet.  Can you think of some way to fix this?  The
 files could be included, or some prepared form of the files could be
 included, in the tarball.  We should also add a checksum test to make
 sure anyone building libidn2 get the files that we expect them to get.

Hi Simon, the release is great news !

Currently, I am learning a lot about Debian packaging from your comments and 
your commits after tag libidn2-0.12.

How do you like it to be organized ?
- putting the changes into my 'debian' branch (as patch set), so you can 
pa!
 ckage
based on 0.12.
- or basing those changes onto your current 'master', so they go into 0.13.

Regarding the checksums... those downloaded files should never change upstream, 
so a hard-coded checksum should do it (sha1 should be fine).
The caveat here is that recent OSX removed checksumming tools like 'sha1sum' 
without replacement. Since we use Perl anyways, we could include a small sha1 
Perl script. WDYT ?

Regards, Tim

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