[DSE-Dev] Bug#913921: Please consider linking against prce2

[Michael Biebl]

Am 18.12.2018 um 11:28 schrieb Laurent Bigonville:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 02:22:59 +0100 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> pcre2 is the successor of pcre.
>> Afaics, libselinux allows linking against pcre2 instead of pcre.
>> Please consider switching it over to the newer version of the library.
>>
>> Build-tested patch is attached.
> 
> Would that means that you'll enable regex support in journald :)

I don't want two libprcre libraries in the essential set. So if we
switch libselinux, then yes, I have no objections to enable regex
support in journald.

> That would made pcre2 pseudo-essential, note that the last essential
> package to use pcre (version 1) is grep. 

Simon has done some bug filing here. I guess you are aware of
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907652
Santiago, what's the state of this bug report?

Also, libpcre2 libraries are
> located in /usr/lib and not /lib, debian is not supporting late mounting
> /usr for a few releases but that still needs to be noted somewhere.

That late-mounting /usr is no longer supported has already been
documented in the (stretch I think) release notes.


Regards,
Michael

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