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ConvertUTF.{cpp,h} are non-free
The ConvertUTF.{cpp,h} are non-free (and buggy/unmaintained), as discussed on the Debian mailing list:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823100
This poses problems for packaging/redistribution. Would it be possible to, perhaps, support linking with libicu
for this purpose?
We're currently using linenoise-ng
in Nix, and this issue is blocking an effort to package Nix for Debian. We could always fork linenoise-ng
to use libicu
, but considering that all software using linenoise-ng
right now are built with non-free code, I figure it makes most sense to have this resolved here.
Thanks!