This is the mail archive of the cygwin-apps mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: 2nd summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)


On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Sep 26 17:08, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >   libpcre                        OBSOLETE (Yaakov S)
> >
> > Did we find any packages still dependent on this?  Since it's still
> > affected by the security vulnerability, I think it should be removed.
>
> I've replaced the existing 4.1-1 package with empty 4.1-2 packages,
> so that should do it.  If that wasn't as good a move as we thought,
> I have a backup of the old packages.  I've taken over maintainership
> for the empty packages ;-)

While we're at it, I noticed the "regex" package isn't in the "obsolete"
category, even though it says it's superseded by Cygwin itself.  It's been
in that mode for ages.  Does *anything* out there depend on it anymore?
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity
of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]