On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > First a question to the maintainers in general: > > There's a dependency in pcre's setup.hint which pulls in the old libpcre > which I created ages ago and which lacks versioning support. I just > checked and we don't have any package left which requires the old > libpcre. > > Shouldn't we finally pull this crap from the distro?
I'd definitely remove it from pcre's setup.hint, but leave it in the obsolete category, as there may be self-compiled binaries depending on it. > On Sep 6 16:51, Yaakov S wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Two weeks and no response. Unfortunately we have this security > > > issue and also a couple of packages relying on libpcre. So we would > > > need either a quick response from Ronald or somebody willing to take > > > over the package fairly quickly. > > > > > > Anybody, please? > > > > Here you go. Since a lot of key programs (i.e. grep) depend on this, > > please test and make sure that this doesn't break anything. > > First of all, many many thank for taking over. This is definitely > worth a gold star. IIIIGOOOOR! Huh, did I miss something? ;-) BTW, should Alan Hourihane get a few as well? > Did you run the testsuite? Did you already install it on your machine > instead of the current pcre? Otherwise, seriously, how do we test this > package expect for installing it?!? I did some simple grep -P tests > which still work, AFAICS, and ... > > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/pcre-6.3-1-src.tar.bz2 > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/pcre-6.3-1.tar.bz2 > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/setup.hint > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/libpcre0/libpcre0-6.3-1.tar.bz2 > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/libpcre0/setup.hint > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/pcre-devel/pcre-devel-6.3-1.tar.bz2 > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/pcre-devel/setup.hint > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/pcre-doc/pcre-doc-6.3-1.tar.bz2 > > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/pcre/pcre-doc/setup.hint > > ... the packaging looks good, so, if you don't mind, I don't mind to > upload it immediately and throw the Cygwin community into cold water. Hehe, how exquisitely mean... :-) > I just would like to remove the libpcre dependency, even if we don't > remove the libpcre package. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
