Re: Retiring the pcre package from Fedora

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 02:25:06PM +0200, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
> The Fedora change for this topic is created [1].
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PcreRetirement

It would be helpful to have an actual deadline written in there.
"Fedora 39" requires an indirection.  Are we talking 2023?  2024?
What date exactly?  I need to tell upstreams that they have until a
certain date to make the change.

Rich.

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:46 AM Lukas Javorsky <ljavorsk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I've decided to write a Fedora change that will contain all of the
>     information about this possible retirement.
> 
>     I have to fill the dependencies that will be affected by this change, so
>     I'm looking for the tool/command which will give them to me.
>     I've seen multiple suggestions here in this thread, but is there some kind
>     of consensus about which one should I choose (which one is the most
>     accurate)?
> 
>     Thank you so much
>     Lukas
> 
>     On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 11:17 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>         Due to static linking, not all functions will be included in the
>         executable and therefore some simple "hello world"  binaries will not
>         need sysprof-capture-static. However, anything that used the .pc file
>         will need it.
> 
>         Technically, you could also use glib's static library without dependent
>         .a libraries if you link with glib's .a file but do not specify
>         -static; but that's not a good argument against having a Requires for
>         the dependency in my opinion, because it makes the .pc file not work
>         out of the box. Perhaps a weak dependency, but even that sounds
>         strange.
> 
>         As to glibc-static I think it's fair to say that whoever uses -static
>         will have to install it on their own, so it can be left out of
>         glib2.spec.
> 
>         Paolo
> 
> 
>         Il mar 26 lug 2022, 10:59 Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> ha
>         scritto:
> 
>             Although listed in glib-2.0.pc, I didn't find any need for the
>             sysprof-capture-static package, but it does need glibc-static
> 
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