PCRE 8.30 will break API

[Reindl Harald]

Am 10.02.2012 01:03, schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> It dlopen's the package so there is no automatic dependency.  To make
>> up for this it requires pcre-devel, but in the light of this soname
>> change that might be a bug.
> 
> It is against the guidelines to require a devel package. Instead, the 
> software MUST be patched to dlopen the fully versioned so from the runtime 
> package instead.

so hopefully someone will take care of "mod_perl"
requires "mod_perl-devel" too........

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771800

[root at arrakis:~]$ yum remove mod_perl-devel-2.0.5-1.fc15.x86_64
Geladene Plugins: downloadonly, protectbase
Einrichten des Entfernungsprozess
Löse Abhängigkeiten auf
--> Führe Transaktionsprüfung aus
---> Package mod_perl-devel.x86_64 0:2.0.5-1.fc15 will be gelöscht
--> Verarbeite Abhängigkeiten: perl(Apache::SizeLimit::Core) für Paket: mod_perl-2.0.5-1.fc15.x86_64
--> Führe Transaktionsprüfung aus
---> Package mod_perl.x86_64 0:2.0.5-1.fc15 will be gelöscht

since this change it would also remove self maintained packages while
over a logn time no single devel-package was installed on any server
* perl-Net-DRI
* perl-SOAP-WSDL

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