Re: Bug#998903: src:libidn: fails to migrate to testing for too long

[Simon Josefsson]

James Valleroy via "Discussion list for GNU Internationalized Domain
Name library (Libidn)" <help-libidn@gnu.org> writes:

> On 11/10/21 6:40 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> James, what do you think?  Is the libidn11-java package important for
>> you to have in Debian?  My perception was that nobody really used it,
>> and IDNA2003/StringPrep is old technology so it feels strange that new
>> code is coming around using.  While I am also upstream of this Java
>> code, I'm not familiar with how Java stuff is packaged/used in Debian,
>> and maybe there is another way of doing things that is just as easy for
>> you.
>
> Hello,
>
> (Adding Sunil who did most of the packaging work for libjxmpp-java.)
>
> libjxmpp-java was packaged as a dependency of jitsi-videobridge.
> Specifically for Jitsi we need the -core, -jid, and -util-cache modules.
>
> It looks like libidn is only used for jxmpp-stringprep-libidn module.
> Possibly we can disable building this module.

Is it not used by anything else?  If so, I agree it makes sense to
disable it, unless you think it is useful elsewhere.  I could add
libidn11-java back if there is real usage of it, but if it is not needed
for anything particular right now, I would prefer if you disable it
until there is real interest in using it.  When/if that occurs, we can
always add libidn11-java and jxmpp-stringprep-libidn back again.
Hopefully, XMPP will be updated to use something newer than StringPrep
meanwhile.

/Simon

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