Re: pcre2 10.47-1 uploaded to experimental
Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 at 05:55, Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just uploaded pcre2 10.47-1 to experimental. The main change from a
>> distribution point of view is the introduction of symbol versioning (but
>> see the announcement[0] for more key changes).
>>
>> I'll be running builds in ci for php8.4 and glib2.0, but please do test
>> your package against the new pcre2 if it makes extensive and/or unusual
>> use of pcre2 features.
>>
>> Assuming all is good, I'll upload to unstable in a couple of weeks or so.
>
> Please run ratt manually or via
> (https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline#build-reverse-dependencies)
> to see how many reverse dependency builds this change breaks. If you
> break many packages, you should probably postpone uploading to
> unstable for a longer time and file bugs on your reverse deps that
> need to test building in experimental and fix compatibility issues.
I don't have the computing power available to re-build all of pcre2's
reverse dependencies, particularly given glib2.0 and php8.4 (both of
which do make extensive use of pcre2 and have tripped over changes in
the past) have built just fine.
Regards,
Matthew
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