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


On Sep 27 10:15, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 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 category, even though it says it's superseded by Cygwin itself.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?

I don't think so.  The package itself is empty anyway.  I've set the
category to _obsolete.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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