2008/2/1, Eric Belanger :

Hi,

In testing for both arches. Please signoff.

Regular update. Upstream changelog: The main reason for having this release so soon after 7.5 is because it fixes a potential buffer overflow problem in pcre_compile() when run in UTF-8 mode. In addition, the CMake configuration files have been brought up to date.

It seems there is a hidden (no .so bump) ABI breakage: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9437#comment24335 -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:48 +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2008/2/1, Eric Belanger :

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Hi,

In testing for both arches. Please signoff.

Regular update. Upstream changelog: The main reason for having this release so soon after 7.5 is because it fixes a potential buffer overflow problem in pcre_compile() when run in UTF-8 mode. In addition, the CMake configuration files have been brought up to date.

It seems there is a hidden (no .so bump) ABI breakage: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9437#comment24335

-1 from me also. libpcrecpp has an ABI breakage. There's more than just gnome-system-monitor that breaks, and there's no clear indication about what packages are affected.

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Jan de Groot wrote:

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:48 +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2008/2/1, Eric Belanger :

...

Hi,

In testing for both arches. Please signoff.

Regular update. Upstream changelog: The main reason for having this release so soon after 7.5 is because it fixes a potential buffer overflow problem in pcre_compile() when run in UTF-8 mode. In addition, the CMake configuration files have been brought up to date.

It seems there is a hidden (no .so bump) ABI breakage: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9437#comment24335

OK, bug fixed. I reverted the patch that causes 9437, it was a bugfix for windows anyways.

I reported the problem upstream, and we'll see what it gets us. Either our 7.6 package will be incompatible with future pcre releases, or they will revert the patch in the next version also.

For people who recompiled software to work with pcre 7.6-1: they should "downgrade" to the official versions, as pcre 7.6-2 is ABI compatible with older versions.

signoff for x86_64 for 7.6-2.

Jan: Thanks for fixing it. 7.6-2 works here boths arches (I tested with gnome-system-monitor) However, it might be better to keep it in testing for at least a couple of days just to be on the safe side. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.