On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 01:00:02PM -0000, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I don't like the revert idea either. > > But like I pointed out almost 4 months ago, there are just 3 options, right? > 1. Accept PCRE2 in main > 2. Keep gnome-terminal at 3.20 and vte at 0.44 indefinitely > 3. Revert the PCRE2 changes, which allows postponing a choice between the > first two. > > I don't think #2 is better for maintainability than #3 really (We've > done that with other packages before and it means that Ubuntu will only > get a handful of bugfixes. Long term, it means we'll have created a > mostly dead fork and I'm not convinced we had a good enough reason to do > that. #3 is a fork too but it won't be as dead as quickly.) > > I really think #1 is the right answer here but if we go with #3, we can > keep ignoring the MIR for several more months.
I'm sure there will be some point at which there will be a compelling reason to upgrade. I just don't think we're there yet, and I think we'll be able to maintain 3.20 for another (9 month) release without getting into a potentially difficult situation with a complicated revert. There will also definitely be a point at which some other upstream switches off the dead branch of PCRE, and we get to have this fight with two programs on one side rather than one. That is, if you revert, then the patches will have to be removed. If we're on 3.20 then we'll have to upgrade. Either way, the situation we will have in Zesty will not be around forever. So I think I'm out of arguments. Sorry for not being convinced. If any other release team member is reading this and wants to weigh in, feel free. BTW I think we (Ubuntu as a whole) should push more on the PCRE transition in the next cycle in any event. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ [email protected] ] Debian Developer [ [email protected] ] Ubuntu Developer [ [email protected] ] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666264 Title: FFe: Update gnome-terminal to 3.24 and vte to 0.48 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1666264/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
