Bug 2128355

Summary: Please port your pcre dependency to pcre2. Pcre has been deprecated
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lukas Javorsky <ljavorsk>
Component: plAssignee: Jerry James <loganjerry>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Lukas Javorsky 2022-09-20 13:09:22 UTC
Pcre has been deprecated since Fedora 38.
Please consider porting to the new pcre2 version.

Fedora change that describes the pcre deprecation is located here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PcreDeprecation
FESCo approval is located here: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2862

If your component has already ported to pcre2 or you don't Require/BuildRequire any pcre subpackage, feel free to close this Bugzilla.
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Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2022-09-20 13:46:18 UTC
Adding blocking relationship to BZ 2127507 (the Change tracker)

Comment 2 Jerry James 2022-09-20 14:22:14 UTC
The change to pcre2 has been made in the pl development branch (8.5.x).  It will be part of a future release on a stable branch.  I'm not sure if they're going to backport it to the current stable branch (8.4.x), or wait until the next stable branch (8.6.x) is released.

If we reach the point where we want to retire pcre from Fedora and no stable version of pl yet supports pcre2, then we can either look at backporting the change ourselves, or temporarily package the development branch, whichever seems less risky.

Comment 3 Jerry James 2022-12-16 03:19:02 UTC
The 9.0 series has been released.  I have just built version 9.0.2, which links with pcre2.