On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:25:25PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:11:59PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >On 2006-01-29 Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
