Re: Retiring the pcre package from Fedora

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V Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 02:24:00PM +0200, Lukas Javorsky napsal(a):
> As from the pcre-8.45, the upstream stopped supporting this library. The
> recommended procedure is to switch onto the new pcre2 library that has full
> upstream support. [1]
> 
> As a result of this announcement, the older PCRE library in Fedora will be
> retired.
> Without upstream support, we don't have enough capacity to keep up with the
> security and bugs-related issues, and thus we will support only the new
> PCRE2 library. [2]
> 
> The retirement procedure will happen in the upcoming weeks, so if you would
> like to take over the package let us know.
> 
> 
> The list of affected packages:
> 389-ds-base
> 389-ds-base-libs
> EMBOSS-libs
[...]
> perl

I'm not sure what "affected" means here, but e.g. perl has no direct
dependency on pcre. Maybe your computation is not correct.

-- Petr

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