PCRE 8.30 will break API

[Jon Ciesla]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 2012-02-09, Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Result is pcre library has changed SONAME from libpcre.so.0 to
>>> libpcre.so.1. Other librararies (pcrecpp, pcreposix) delivered with this
>>> package remain compatible.
>>>
>>> Because pcre library is part of minimal build root I choosed following
>>> strategy to avoid breaking Koji:
>>
>> When do you anticipate that this will hit?
>>
> Now :) pcre-8.30-1.fc18 is the first build bringing both libraries.
>
> I did thorough tests in virtual machine and the system boots even with
> new pcre. Just to make all parties easy, this build targets F18 only.
> There is no plan to put it into F17. Actully I postponed the 8.30 build
> until branching F17.
>
> I will start rebuilding listed packages on Friday.

Outstanding, thanks!

-J

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