[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pcre 7.6-1

Varun Acharya ganja.guru.x64 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 01:59:14 EST 2008


On Feb 2, 2008 11:18 PM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/2/1, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca>:
> >
> > 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)


packages which depend on pcre like grep, nmap and kdelibs seem to be
functioning  ok, so +1 from me.
Varun
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/attachments/20080203/249e217f/attachment.htm>


More information about the arch-dev-public mailing list