Retiring the pcre package from Fedora

[Lukas Javorsky]

Hi,

As from the pcre-8.45, the upstream stopped supporting this library. The
recommended procedure is to switch onto the new pcre2 library that has full
upstream support. [1]

As a result of this announcement, the older PCRE library in Fedora will be
retired.
Without upstream support, we don't have enough capacity to keep up with the
security and bugs-related issues, and thus we will support only the new
PCRE2 library. [2]

The retirement procedure will happen in the upcoming weeks, so if you would
like to take over the package let us know.


The list of affected packages:
389-ds-base
389-ds-base-libs
EMBOSS-libs
Falcon
GMT
Io-language
Thunar
adanaxisgpl
aide
aircrack-ng
anope-pcre
bti
ccze
cegui
cegui06
clisp
clover2
clover2-devel
clover2-libs
coccinelle
compton
condor
condor-classads
cppcheck
cppcheck-gui
cyrus-imapd-libs
eterm
ettercap
freeradius
freeradius-utils
ganglia
ganglia-gmond
ghc-highlighting-kate
ghc-pcre-light
ghc-regex-pcre
gnome-builder
gnome-text-editor
grep
groonga-httpd
haxe
hydra
i3
i3-gaps
imapfilter
kdelibs
kdelibs3
kf5-kjs
kismet
libast
libeplplot
liblognorm
libmodsecurity
libprelude
lnav
mle
mod_auth_openid
mod_auth_openidc
mod_qos
mod_security
mod_security-mlogc
monotone
ncid
nekovm
ngrep
nmap
ocaml-pcre
octave
openCOLLADA
openscap
openscap-engine-sce
opensips
opensips-regex
pads
pcre-cpp
pdfgrep
perl
perl-HTML-Template-Pro
perl-re-engine-PCRE
picom
pl
poco-debug
poco-foundation
postfix-pcre
powwow
prboom-plus
prelude-lml
privoxy
python3-qutepart
python3-scss
rasqal
regexxer
remctl
root-core
rudiments
slang-slsh
sord
sslh
suricata
sway
swig
syncevolution-libs
syncevolution-libs-akonadi
syslog-ng
syslog-ng-mqtt
syslog-ng-slog
the_foundation
the_silver_searcher
tin
tintin
tinyfugue
trafficserver
uwsgi
vdr-epgfixer
watchman
wmweather+
xastir
xfce4-verve-plugin
xgrep
xmlcopyeditor
zabbix
zabbix-agent
zabbix-proxy-mysql
zabbix-proxy-pgsql
zabbix-proxy-sqlite3
zabbix-server-mysql
zabbix-server-pgsql
zsh

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Thank you for understanding.
Lukas

[1] https://www.pcre.org/
[2] https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2
-- 
S pozdravom/ Best regards

Lukáš Javorský

Software Engineer, Core service - Databases

Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com>

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