This is a tracking bug for Change: Pcre Deprecation For more details, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PcreDeprecation Upstream stopped the support for the old 'pcre' package. It only supports the new 'pcre2' version, so Fedora should deprecate it so it could later be retired and removed from Fedora entirely. If you encounter a bug related to this Change, please do not comment here. Instead create a new bug and set it to block this bug.
Commit that deprecated the package and its sub-packages have been added to the rawhide branch. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pcre/c/39c21a60f248df1e9dd5aadff503636234e17d40?branch=rawhide Do we need to rebuild this package as well, or is the work done for the deprecation?
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what's current status/plan on pcre(v1) drop from release? this bug, & status @ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PcreDeprecation#Current_status suggest f38 was targeted release but, this still has lots of open deps. and, on f*39*, attempt to `dnf remove pcre` still looks pretty fatal ... ``` ... Removing dependent packages: calibre x86_64 6.28.1-2.fc39 @updates 60 M chromium x86_64 119.0.6045.159-2.fc39 @updates 227 M dolphin x86_64 23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 11 M dolphin-libs x86_64 23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 1.8 M easyeffects x86_64 7.1.3-1.fc39 @updates 7.0 M elisa-player x86_64 23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 4.4 M ffmpegthumbs x86_64 23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 110 k gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free x86_64 1.22.7-1.fc39 @updates 7.6 M gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras x86_64 1.22.7-1.fc39 @updates 1.5 M gwenview x86_64 1:23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 9.5 M gwenview-libs x86_64 1:23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 1.7 M k3b x86_64 1:23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 31 M k3b-libs x86_64 1:23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 2.9 M krename x86_64 1:5.0.2-3.fc39 @fedora 2.3 M libchromaprint x86_64 1.5.1-13.fc39 @fedora 68 k lilv x86_64 0.24.20-1.fc39 @fedora 90 k mkvtoolnix-gui x86_64 79.0-1.fc39 @fedora 14 M mpv x86_64 0.36.0-3.fc39 @fedora 4.6 M nmap x86_64 3:7.93-3.fc39 @fedora 24 M okular x86_64 23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 7.3 M plasma-browser-integration x86_64 5.27.9-1.fc39 @updates 504 k plasma-desktop x86_64 5.27.9-1.fc39 @updates 25 M plasma-workspace x86_64 5.27.9.1-3.fc39 @updates 36 M plasma-workspace-x11 x86_64 5.27.9.1-3.fc39 @updates 170 k sddm-breeze noarch 5.27.9.1-3.fc39 @updates 660 k sord x86_64 0.16.14-2.fc39 @fedora 89 k spectacle x86_64 23.08.3-1.fc39 @updates 3.5 M sratom x86_64 0.6.14-2.fc39 @fedora 45 k system-config-printer x86_64 1.5.18-5.fc39 @fedora 1.8 M wireshark x86_64 1:4.0.8-2.fc39 @fedora 9.2 M xscreensaver x86_64 1:6.08-1.fc39 @updates 0 ... ```
Hi, the package has been deprecated. I've filled a bug for each dependency to port to pcre2, but I can't force anyone when it's just deprecated. The package maintainers should want to do that themselves as the pcre is no longer supported.