Bug#449289: glib: The package doesn't require new pcre

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 449289 libpcre3
severity 449289 serious
thanks

Le dimanche 04 novembre 2007 à 13:18 -0600, Yevgen Muntyan a écrit :
> Package: libglib2.0-0
> Version: 2.14.1-5
> Severity: normal
> File: glib
> 
> The glib-2.14.1 package doesn't require new enough pcre version.
> So when I used apt-get dist-upgrade, it upgraded glib to 2.14 but
> didn't upgrade pcre which was 6.7, and that broke regular expressions
> in glib. Regular expressions stuff in glib requires pcre of version
> 7.2 or newer, so the debian package should have an appropriate
> dependency.

Then this must be because of a wrong shlibs version in libpcre3.

Even if there are no added symbols between 6.7 and 7.2, that doesn't
mean the ABI hasn't changed. An ABI is not simply a list of symbols and
prototypes, it is also about the *semantics* of the implementation. If
the semantics have changed, you must bump the shlibs. And the very fact
that glib does work with the older version means the semantics have
changed.

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