Debian Bug report logs - #350468
libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bart Martens <bart.martens@advalvas.be>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:00:06 +0100

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Package: libpcre3
Version: 6.4-1.1
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice to see libpcre.so* installed in /lib so that the -P
option in grep can be enabled.  See also bugs #238237, #237071, #338401,
#338500, (...?).  According to these webpages, redhat installs
libpcre.so* in /lib since 2001, for the very same reason :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41104
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/pcre-4.5-3.i386.html

The attached patch works for me.

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Message #12 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>

To: Bart Martens <bart.martens@advalvas.be>, 350468@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:11:59 +0100

On 2006-01-29 Bart Martens <bart.martens@advalvas.be> wrote:
> Package: libpcre3
> Version: 6.4-1.1
> Severity: wishlist

> It would be nice to see libpcre.so* installed in /lib so that the -P
> option in grep can be enabled.  See also bugs #238237, #237071, #338401,
> #338500, (...?).  According to these webpages, redhat installs
> libpcre.so* in /lib since 2001, for the very same reason :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41104
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/pcre-4.5-3.i386.html
[...]

(SID)ametzler@argenau:~$ apt-cache show grep libpcre3 | \
          egrep '^Pack|^Prio|^Ess'
Package: grep
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Package: libpcre3
Priority: standard

If standard grep linked against libpcre, libpcre's priority would nee
to be bumped and it would become quasi-essential.

This would require at least discussion on debian-devel.
             cu andreas

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Message #17 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>

To: 350468@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:25:25 +1000

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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:11:59PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>On 2006-01-29 Bart Martens <bart.martens@advalvas.be> wrote:
>>Package: libpcre3
>>Version: 6.4-1.1
>>Severity: wishlist
>
>>It would be nice to see libpcre.so* installed in /lib so that the -P
>>option in grep can be enabled.  See also bugs #238237, #237071, #338401,
>>#338500, (...?).  According to these webpages, redhat installs
>>libpcre.so* in /lib since 2001, for the very same reason :
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41104
>>http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/pcre-4.5-3.i386.html
>[...]
>
>(SID)ametzler@argenau:~$ apt-cache show grep libpcre3 | \
>          egrep '^Pack|^Prio|^Ess'
>Package: grep
>Essential: yes
>Priority: required
>Package: libpcre3
>Priority: standard
>
>If standard grep linked against libpcre, libpcre's priority would nee
>to be bumped and it would become quasi-essential.
>
>This would require at least discussion on debian-devel.
>             cu andreas

Mark,

The grep maintainers would like to enable the -P grep option.

Please move libpcre.so* to /lib.

Best Regards,

Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
-- 
http://v7w.com/anibal

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Message #22 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>

To: Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>

Cc: 350468@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:48:52 +0200

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:25:25PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:11:59PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> >On 2006-01-29 Bart Martens <bart.martens@advalvas.be> wrote:
> >>Package: libpcre3
> >>Version: 6.4-1.1
> >>Severity: wishlist
> >
> >>It would be nice to see libpcre.so* installed in /lib so that the -P
> >>option in grep can be enabled.  See also bugs #238237, #237071, #338401,
> >>#338500, (...?).  According to these webpages, redhat installs
> >>libpcre.so* in /lib since 2001, for the very same reason :
> >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41104
> >>http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/pcre-4.5-3.i386.html
> >[...]
> >
> >(SID)ametzler@argenau:~$ apt-cache show grep libpcre3 | \
> >          egrep '^Pack|^Prio|^Ess'
> >Package: grep
> >Essential: yes
> >Priority: required
> >Package: libpcre3
> >Priority: standard
> >
> >If standard grep linked against libpcre, libpcre's priority would nee
> >to be bumped and it would become quasi-essential.
> >
> >This would require at least discussion on debian-devel.
> >             cu andreas
> 
> Mark,
> 
> The grep maintainers would like to enable the -P grep option.
> 
> Please move libpcre.so* to /lib.

Instead of moving libpcre and making it quasi-essential, why not
slightly modify grep so that it can dlopen libpcre if present. Not
everyone needs the -P option to grep. But then, there is the problem of
scripts that would use the -P option when libpcre is not present :-/

Mike

Message #27 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Cc: 350468@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:27:16 +0200

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On Jul 22, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:

> Instead of moving libpcre and making it quasi-essential, why not
> slightly modify grep so that it can dlopen libpcre if present. Not
Since grep is already modular this would be very easy to implement by
moving the Pcompile() and Pexecute() functions in a separate file to be
dlopen'ed.
OTOH, I'm still not sure that it would be worth the effort.

> everyone needs the -P option to grep. But then, there is the problem of
> scripts that would use the -P option when libpcre is not present :-/
Scripts using -P would need to depend on libcpre.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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Message #32 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 350468@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:34:21 +0200

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:27:16PM +0200, Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
> On Jul 22, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> 
> > Instead of moving libpcre and making it quasi-essential, why not
> > slightly modify grep so that it can dlopen libpcre if present. Not
> Since grep is already modular this would be very easy to implement by
> moving the Pcompile() and Pexecute() functions in a separate file to be
> dlopen'ed.
> OTOH, I'm still not sure that it would be worth the effort.
> 
> > everyone needs the -P option to grep. But then, there is the problem of
> > scripts that would use the -P option when libpcre is not present :-/
> Scripts using -P would need to depend on libcpre.

But packages including such scripts and not depending on libpcre would
be difficult to find...

Mike

Message #37 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Cc: 350468@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:10:30 +0200

* Mike Hommey [Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:34:21 +0200]:

> On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:27:16PM +0200, Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
> > Scripts using -P would need to depend on libcpre.

> But packages including such scripts and not depending on libpcre would
> be difficult to find...

Since grep has no -P support at the moment, there are no such scripts
now. Then, the changelog entry for the grep version that introduces it
can make it clear the need for the dependency by packages wishing to use
-P.

Since those maintainers will need to check the changelog to know what
version of grep they need to depend on, they'll see the comment and add
the libpcre dependency as well.

At the end of the day, I doubt the number of packages that introduce the
versioned dependency but not the dependency on the library will be
hopefully very low. There will be of course a number of packages without
either of those, but the versioned depends is needed whether dlopening
or not, so it doesn't sound like the number of buggy packages will be
bigger (if grep dlopens instead of just linking).

Cheers,

-- 
Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
                -- Michel de Montaigne

Message #42 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>

To: Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>, 350468@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:12:22 +0200

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 11:48:52AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:25:25PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:11:59PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > >On 2006-01-29 Bart Martens <bart.martens@advalvas.be> wrote:
> > >>Package: libpcre3
> > >>Version: 6.4-1.1
> > >>Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > >>It would be nice to see libpcre.so* installed in /lib so that the -P
> > >>option in grep can be enabled.  See also bugs #238237, #237071, #338401,
> > >>#338500, (...?).  According to these webpages, redhat installs
> > >>libpcre.so* in /lib since 2001, for the very same reason :
> > >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41104
> > >>http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/pcre-4.5-3.i386.html
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >(SID)ametzler@argenau:~$ apt-cache show grep libpcre3 | \
> > >          egrep '^Pack|^Prio|^Ess'
> > >Package: grep
> > >Essential: yes
> > >Priority: required
> > >Package: libpcre3
> > >Priority: standard
> > >
> > >If standard grep linked against libpcre, libpcre's priority would nee
> > >to be bumped and it would become quasi-essential.
> > >
> > >This would require at least discussion on debian-devel.
> > >             cu andreas
> > 
> > Mark,
> > 
> > The grep maintainers would like to enable the -P grep option.
> > 
> > Please move libpcre.so* to /lib.
> 
> Instead of moving libpcre and making it quasi-essential, why not
> slightly modify grep so that it can dlopen libpcre if present. Not
> everyone needs the -P option to grep. But then, there is the problem of
> scripts that would use the -P option when libpcre is not present :-/

Those scripts would either be system-specific (in which case the local
sysadmin would ensure that libpcre is installed), or be part of a
package, that then needs to declare a proper dependency. I don't think
there is a problem here.

-- 
Fun will now commence
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Message #45 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 350468@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#350468: libpcre3: install libpcre.so* in /lib

Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:23:16 +0200

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Re: Marco d'Itri 2006-07-22 <20060722102716.GA11571@wonderland.linux.it>
> > Instead of moving libpcre and making it quasi-essential, why not
> > slightly modify grep so that it can dlopen libpcre if present. Not
> Since grep is already modular this would be very easy to implement by
> moving the Pcompile() and Pexecute() functions in a separate file to be
> dlopen'ed.
> OTOH, I'm still not sure that it would be worth the effort.
> 
> > everyone needs the -P option to grep. But then, there is the problem of
> > scripts that would use the -P option when libpcre is not present :-/
> Scripts using -P would need to depend on libcpre.

There's a third solution: make grep depend on libpcre, use dlopen, but
do not move the library to /lib. In that case, only scripts at boot
time need to stay away from -P.

I'd be glad though for any package that doesn't get pulled into by
pbuilder tar.gz...

Christoph
-- 
cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

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Message #50 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tyler MacDonald <tyler@yi.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <350468@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: libpcre3: PLEASE!

Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:32:23 -0700

Package: libpcre3
Version: 7.3-2
Followup-For: Bug #350468


Please???
Please???????

PCRE's are 1,000x more useful than regular old regexp's, not having PCRE in
/lib is hurting debian's grep implementation. Can we please have PCRE marked
essential and moved to /lib, so that grep can consume it? Cmon, it's only
200k...

	- Tyler


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Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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Versions of packages libpcre3 depends on:
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Message #55 received at 350468@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Hahler <debian-bugs@thequod.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <350468@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Patch to move libpcre3 from /usr/lib to /lib

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:41:33 +0100

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Package: pcre3
Version: 7.4-1
Followup-For: Bug #350468
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu hardy ubuntu-patch



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In Ubuntu, we plan to apply the attached patch to achieve the following:

  * debian/rules, debian/libpcre3*.install:
    Move libpcre3 to /lib (LP: #15051)

We thought you might be interested in doing the same. 

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Message #60 received at 350468-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mark Baker <mark@mnb.org.uk>

To: 350468-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#350468: fixed in pcre3 7.8-3

Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:34:43 +0000

Source: pcre3
Source-Version: 7.8-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pcre3, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libpcre3-dbg_7.8-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dbg_7.8-3_i386.deb
libpcre3-dev_7.8-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_7.8-3_i386.deb
libpcre3-udeb_7.8-3_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-udeb_7.8-3_i386.udeb
libpcre3_7.8-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_7.8-3_i386.deb
libpcrecpp0_7.8-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_7.8-3_i386.deb
pcre3_7.8-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_7.8-3.diff.gz
pcre3_7.8-3.dsc
  to pool/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_7.8-3.dsc
pcregrep_7.8-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_7.8-3_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
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Architecture: source i386
Version: 7.8-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
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