On 2005-11-10 Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: libpcre3 > Version: 6.4-1 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system
> libpcre3 install its libraries in /usr/lib:
> /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3.12.0
> /usr/lib/libpcrecpp.so.0.0.0
> /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.3.12.0
> However, crucial system binaries needed at boot time depend on it, programs
> such as grep which must be working before /usr is mounted:
> $ ldd /bin/grep
> libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x0ffb4000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0fe53000)
> /lib/ld.so.1 (0x30000000)
> The result is a complete inability of the system to successfully
> boot multi-user.
> These binaries did not used to be linked against libpcre3, and I don't
> know why they are now.
[...]
* Compiled with libpcre3 to enable perl regular expressions.
Closes: #203109: perl mode non-functional, should not be documented
Closes: #238237: -P option doesn't work.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-cache show libpcre3 grep | grep -E '^Package|^Priority'
Package: libpcre3
Priority: standard
Package: grep
Priority: required
So grep breaks policy 2.5.
And I really do not think we want to bloat the base system by making
pcre Priority standard.. I'd suggest re-assigning this bug to grep.
cu andreas
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