#27809 - libidn2 underscore stripping problem

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>, 27809@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27809: libidn2 underscore stripping problem
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> It was recently reported that libidn2 can cause issues for domains whose
> names contain underscores, and maybe some other characters, too.  It
> matters to us because we build GnuTLS with libidn2.
>
> I'm not sure yet what the solution is for us. Help wanted!
>
> Original report:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6426
>
> libidn2 discussion:
> https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/issues/30
>
> Upstream fix:
> https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/commit/a5cbc16efd02adb78d2d082b21c3ac4d3fa88d2e

The commit refers to TR46 which is a Unicode standards document:

http://unicode.org/reports/tr46/#STD3_Rules

It appears the new IDNA processing rules disallow use of underscores in
domain names, which is in direct conflict with e.g. RFC2782[0].

Part of the confusion comes from the fact that underscores are indeed
disallowed in *hostnames* (as in A and AAAA records)[1].

So if libidn2 enforces STD3 compliance on *all* domain types (how can it
distinguish?), that is not good.

I'm not sure if it's worth grafting it until we have a real-world use
case however. Though we could consider swallowing the ~2300 rebuilds in
the next staging round for the new version which contains the fix.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2782
[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#section-2

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#27809 libidn2 underscore stripping problem