Bug#755439: pcre3: DFA matching behaviour changed, breaking glib2.0 tests

[Simon McVittie]

tags 755439 + patch upstream
thanks

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 at 10:17:09 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> The remaining failures seem to be an intentional behaviour change in PCRE.
> I don't know whether the correct resolution is "adapt GLib" or "partially
> revert the change in PCRE" so I'm assigning this bug to both for now.

I would really appreciate opinions from GLib maintainers on which
solution to the DFA-matching thing is most correct, and whether the
specific patches I sent upstream are OK. See
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733325#c14> (and please
take any positive or negative feedback upstream).

svn diff for Debian's glib2.0 packaging attached.

These tests pass, but I get a failure in an unrelated test (opening
another bug now).

Thanks,
    S