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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:
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> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > libpcre OBSOLETE (Yaakov S)
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> > Did we find any packages still dependent on this? Since it's still
> > affected by the security vulnerability, I think it should be removed.
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> 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category, even though it says it's superseded by Cygwin itself.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
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