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Re: packaging of libpcre4



On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:02:35PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>   according to http://www.pcre.org the latest available version of
> libpcre is 4.3. Debian already ships the latest version of the 3.x pcre
> series but no package of the 4.x series.

> Actually I need it because a package of mine (OCaml bindings to PCRE)
> requires a 4.x series library.
 
> Do you plan to package also "libpcre4"?
> Do you know of someone else being working on it?

> I'm not willing to package libpcre4, but maybe somebody else is ...

pcre 4.3 is (supposed to be) binary compatible with pcre 3 (same
soname, packages linked against v3 will continue to run.)

http://bugs.debian.org/182570

                cu andreas



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