[MIR] pcre2
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pcre2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Availability
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Synced with Debian. Built for all supported architectures.
Rationale
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Required by vte2.91 0.46+ and gnome-terminal 3.22+.
The Ubuntu Desktop team has postponed the need for this transition by reverting the vte and gnome-terminal commits that switched to pcre2.
Security
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At least one open security issue, affecting Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Quality assurance
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- Please subscribe Ubuntu Desktop Bugs or Ubuntu Foundation Bugs (like pcre3) to this package.
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Upstream tests are run during the build but there is no autopkgtest
Does not have 3.0 (quilt) set
Dependencies
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Only build-dependencies are dpkg and debhelper. No other added dependencies.
Standards compliance
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3.9.6
Maintenance
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- Actively developed upstream
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Background information
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As the package description states, the older version of this library is confusingly named pcre3 in Debian/Ubuntu. pcre3 is already in Ubuntu main.
Transition
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Other Info
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In the original release of pcre2 in Jan 2015, the author says this is not just a drastic update to the original pcre but a "new project". He felt free to change names and options.
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pcre3 has gotten some bugfix releases since then (from 8.36 to 8.40 released Jan 2017)
Some discussion of how it's different:
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PCRE3 Reverse Dependencies in Main
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Can be built with pcre2:
- clamav <https:/
- git [bug 1729075]
- haproxy <https:/
- libselinux <https:/
- wget
Can NOT be built with pcre2:
- apache2 <https:/
- exim4 <https:/
- freeradius
- glib2.0 https:/
- libpam-mount
- nginx (blocked on exim4?)
- nmap
- php7.2 (but php7.3 will switch to pcre2)
- postfix
- python-pyscss
- rasqal
- sssd
description: | updated |
Changed in pcre2 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) |
Changed in pcre2 (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-17.03 |
Changed in pcre2 (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-17.03 → ubuntu-17.05 |
no longer affects: | vte2.91 (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in pcre2 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in pcre2 (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-17.08 → none |
> pcre3 is already in Ubuntu main
we don't want to have two versions in main. please could you evaluate first what is needed to demote pcre3?