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

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Sun Feb 3 08:33:31 EST 2008


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

-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.





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