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Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> (He/Him)

> On 4. 12. 2021, at 17:14, Matthew Vernon <matt...@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 22/11/2021 09:16, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> 
>> I analysed the problem in:
>> https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/issues/56
> 
> Thanks! I've had a read of that, and AIUI it's a behaviour change (matching 
> that of perl) rather than an ABI change?
> 
> 
>> I guess bumping the version in the symbols file like this should do the 
>> trick:
> 
>> - pcre2_set_compile_extra_options_8@Base 10.32
>> + pcre2_set_compile_extra_options_8@Base 10.38
> 
> Making this change will cause some things that will work fine with 10.32 to 
> incorrectly state a dependency on >=10.38, yes? But leaving things as-is 
> means that some code that uses a particular flag will not work if compiled 
> with >=10.38 and run against <10.38?
> 
> I think that probably means on balance we should make the change you suggest, 
> but I wanted to check I'd understood correctly :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthew

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