[DSE-Dev] Bug#1088171: "Regex version mismatch" errors after pcre2 upgrade

[Matthew Vernon]

Hi,

On 16/12/2024 11:58, Christian Göttsche wrote:
> Dec 16, 2024 10:14:21 Matthew Vernon <matthew at debian.org>:

>> If selinux wants to run something whenever pcre2 is updated on a system, it probably wants to install a suitable dpkg trigger.
> 
> There is a proposal for such a trigger:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pcre2/-/merge_requests/4

With respect, this is the wrong place for such a process - if selinux 
wants to run code when pcre2 is updated, the selinux package should 
install a trigger itself (rather than having the pcre2 postinst try to 
handle it). https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgTriggers has some notes.

Regards,

Matthew