On Sep 7 08:47, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > First a question to the maintainers in general: > > > > There's a dependency in pcre's setup.hint which pulls in the old libpcre > > which I created ages ago and which lacks versioning support. I just > > checked and we don't have any package left which requires the old > > libpcre. > > > > Shouldn't we finally pull this crap from the distro? > > I'd definitely remove it from pcre's setup.hint, but leave it in the > obsolete category, as there may be self-compiled binaries depending on it.
Sounds like a plan. > > On Sep 6 16:51, Yaakov S wrote: > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Two weeks and no response. Unfortunately we have this security > > > > issue and also a couple of packages relying on libpcre. So we would > > > > need either a quick response from Ronald or somebody willing to take > > > > over the package fairly quickly. > > > > > > > > Anybody, please? > > > > > > Here you go. Since a lot of key programs (i.e. grep) depend on this, > > > please test and make sure that this doesn't break anything. > > > > First of all, many many thank for taking over. This is definitely > > worth a gold star. IIIIGOOOOR! > > Huh, did I miss something? ;-) > BTW, should Alan Hourihane get a few as well? Er... didn't he get them already? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:[email protected] Red Hat, Inc.
