Re: PCRE package naming

2015-11-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:24:09AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Is there anything preventing a rename of libpcre2-dev to libpcre-dev, first? That should, of course, have been "Is there anything preventing a rename of libpcre3-dev to libpcre-dev, first?"

Re: PCRE package naming

2015-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 03:51:26PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > No, the -dev packages will need to be co-installable, too. I expect > we'll need to ship PCRE (including its -dev package) for quite some time. > > ...so I'm still not sure what to call PCRE2 :-/ Sorry if I'm being thick, but libpc

Re: PCRE package naming

2015-11-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 10/22/2015 10:47 AM, Matthew Vernon wrote: The natural thing to call the PCRE2 packages is pcre2, but that's going to lead to confusion - ISTM that something that makes it clear that PCRE2 is newer than PCRE is desirable. And, obviously, PCRE & PCRE2 need to be co-installable. There are alre

Re: PCRE package naming

2015-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthew Vernon writes: > No, the -dev packages will need to be co-installable, too. I expect > we'll need to ship PCRE (including its -dev package) for quite some time. > ...so I'm still not sure what to call PCRE2 :-/ It's pretty ugly, but I'd tend to use libpcre-v2-dev. Hopefully people will

Re: PCRE package naming

2015-10-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Simon Richter writes: > Hi Matthew, > > On 22.10.2015 16:47, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > Upstream has a new PCRE library, which they hope everyone will > > eventually migrate to, which is called PCRE2. It is currently version > > 10.20. It ships things named like libpcre2-8.so.0, and its p

Re: PCRE package naming

2015-10-22 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Matthew, On 22.10.2015 16:47, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Upstream has a new PCRE library, which they hope everyone will > eventually migrate to, which is called PCRE2. It is currently version > 10.20. It ships things named like libpcre2-8.so.0, and its pcregrep is > called pcre2grep. That should