[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#1050186: Bug#1050186: Bug#1050186: libnginx-mod-http-lua: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

[Jan Mojzis]

Hi,
I've uploaded experimental version with the PCRE2 patch included
1:0.10.25-2~exp1 to the experimental.

Jan


On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:50:52 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsOpbXkgTGFs?= <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> Le mar. 29 août 2023 à 15:43, Thomas Ward <teward at thomas-ward.net> a écrit :
> 
> > I apoligize I was thinking Lua deps not PCRE.
> >
> > However, I did more digging. OpenResty has been on NGINX cofe version
> > 1.21.4 for the longest time.  They do not have PCRE2 support in their
> > system.  As this is an OpenResty-originating module the 4th requirement as
> > stated in the linked GitHub issue is not met.
> >
> > I would not be so sure that "next update" will have a fix if OpenResty
> > core does not support PRCE2 (1.21.5 nginx introduced PCRE2 core
> > requirement/build fixes, OpenResty never inccuded that).  The reason PCRE3
> > is still used here in the Lua module is the custom workaround of mixing
> > PCRE2 nginx and PCRE3 Lua which use different build flags at compile time
> > with the linking options.
> >
> > Therefore, we need to not make assumptions and watch this closely.  If
> > there is not movement in a reasonable time period, then we may have to drop
> > this module from Debian due to PCRE3 being obsolete.
> >
> 
> Actually, openresty has started supporting nginx 1.25.1 recently:
> 
> [feature: upgrade nginx core to 1.25.1 which supports HTTP3](
> https://github.com/openresty/openresty/commit/6278b1aeae0593b17d3143aeb60a216f73b6bb1d)[feature:
> [upgrade nginx core to 1.25.1](
> https://github.com/openresty/stream-lua-nginx-module/commit/d48f057f18eb1f33123bf62be49c735c5cb98f16
> )
> [upgrade nginx core to 1.25.1](
> https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module/commit/e69fd3de281f31804857aa6dc0b8e79055716138
> )
> >
> >
> Considering the work of the author of these patches, I'd be surprised if it
> wasn't finished soon (right now, only stream-lua-nginx has no support for
> pcre2).