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Bug 2128386

Summary:	Please port your pcre dependency to pcre2. Pcre has been deprecated
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lukas Javorsky <ljavorsk>
Component:	the_silver_searcher	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	38	CC:	carl, knakayam, shlomif
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Description Lukas Javorsky 2022-09-20 13:16:00 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.
This Bugzilla was created automatically and some issues might have occurred along the way.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2022-09-20 13:46:18 UTC

Adding blocking relationship to BZ 2127507 (the Change tracker)

Comment 2 Carl George 🤠 2022-09-20 18:58:03 UTC

Upstream development for the_silver_searcher has ceased, with no commits since 2020 [0].  They have an open issue for porting to pcre2 that has been open since 2018 [1].  There is a fork that claims to have ported to pcre2 [2], but it is also no longer maintained [3].

This bug is not a blocker for pcre to be deprecated.  When it's time to actually retire pcre from Fedora, we can make a decision about either retiring the_silver_searcher or switching the source to the pcre2-compatible fork.


[0] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/commits/master
[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/1257
[2] https://github.com/aswild/the_silver_searcher
[3] https://github.com/aswild/the_silver_searcher/commit/7b571a8a94d0e22a06e3313cb0d9672b416fb2c1

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2023-02-07 14:56:23 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 38 development cycle.
Changing version to 38.