Hi, Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> writes:
> Hi Matthew, > > On 22.10.2015 16:47, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > Upstream has a new PCRE library, which they hope everyone will > > eventually migrate to, which is called PCRE2. It is currently version > > 10.20. It ships things named like libpcre2-8.so.0, and its pcregrep is > > called pcre2grep. > > That should probably translate to "libpcre2-8-0" and "libpcre2-dev", > although it is suboptimal that the existing -dev package is called > "libpcre3-dev", probably for historical reasons. > > > The natural thing to call the PCRE2 packages is pcre2, but that's going > > to lead to confusion - ISTM that something that makes it clear that > > PCRE2 is newer than PCRE is desirable. And, obviously, PCRE & PCRE2 need > > to be co-installable. > > The shared libraries will be co-installable without problems, obviously. > For the -dev packages, I wonder whether pcre2 can be used as a drop-in > (which would lead almost certainly mean that the -dev packages would > conflict) No, the -dev packages will need to be co-installable, too. I expect we'll need to ship PCRE (including its -dev package) for quite some time. ...so I'm still not sure what to call PCRE2 :-/ Regards, Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org
