> On Dec 2, 2024, at 19:12, Rick Summerhill <rr...@summerhill.org> wrote: > > I use hypermail to display my mlmmj archives to the web. It depends on pcre, > which reports eol: > > Checking for packages with security vulnerabilities: > pcre-8.45_4: Tag: deprecated Value: EOLed by upstream, use devel/pcre2 instead > > Is the intension to update hypermail to pcre2 aand if so, is there a > timeframe? > > -- > Rick >
Hi, Once upon a time portmgr@ decided to gradually move on to pcre2 as pcre1 has been deprecated. At that time there were some discussions about the removal date but so far it was found that with pcre2 is slower compared to pcre and hence it will take a longer time than expected to move on to pcre2. Hence it was decided to mark pcre as deprecated but without any expiration date. Which means that porters will look into possibility if their ports support pcre2 by upstream without any performance loss and if so they should utilize pcre2 instead of pcre1. So far my experience despite being deprecated it is a long time till it will come to end to be removed from the tree. To conclude to answer your question check upstream if they support it otherwise the ports are safe. Kind regards, Moin
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