Package: libpcre3 Severity: serious Version: 8.30-1 Hi,
Upstream's 8.30 release dropped the pcre_info symbol, as mentioned in the changelog and http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/pcre.html ; they even bumped SONAME to account for this. The Debian package, otoh, is still libpcre3 but will now be binary incompatible with a bunch of the reverse-dependencies in the archive. From #debian-release earlier this evening: 22:02 < jcristau> so among the things that seem to use pcre_info there's apache2.2-bin 22:04 < jcristau> also so far httest, squeak-vm, libqpdf3, libapache2-mod-qos, tf5 22:08 < jcristau> i should really looks at squeeze + sid + wheezy though 22:09 < jcristau> s/looks/look/ 22:14 < jcristau> ah, this time it found php5. and r-base-core-ra. A transition to libpcre4 would, to be frank, be somewhat of a pain at this point in the release cycle. We're already binary incompatible with upstream and other distros due to our local SONAME, so re-introducing pcre_info as a Debian-specific patch wouldn't really break much, other than not breaking r-deps. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
