On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 16:05 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
Hi,
has any consideration been give to the size increase required by the
change from libidn (678k) to libidn2 + libunistring (228k + 1246k)?
That's not *too* bad, since currently none of the things which depend
on idn end up in the initramfs, but still, it's noticeable.
Note also that these packages will increase in size as unicode standard
evolves. libidn due to IDNA2003 was tied to a specific old standard
while libunistring gets updated to the latest one thus includes much
more data than the previous ones.
I do not know whether the glibc switch from libidn to libidn2 would
provide some benefit in that aspect.
regards,
Nikos