On 2005-02-14 Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: pcre3
> Severity: normal


> PCRE 5.0 was released in September, 2004.  It has some features that I
> would like to use (some support for Unicode character categories), so
> I'm very interested in seeing packaged.  I'm thinking this is probably
> going to be pcre4, but I haven't checked into it enough to be sure
> whether or not there are ABI changes other than some new options.
[...]

Hello,
If the new upstream indeed required a soname change upgrading would
need to be done in a organized manner (either a staging area with all
depending packages or keeping libpcre3 in oldlibs with a new
source-package.) - Pcre has frozen packages (exim4) as reverse
dependencies. However none of the versions from 3.4 to 4.5 required a
soname change. ;-)
               cu andreas
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