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[Uoti Urpala]

On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 19:32 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am Do., 30. Aug. 2018 um 18:56 Uhr schrieb Uoti Urpala
> <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi>:
> > Keeping code using an up-to-date dependency disabled because other
> > packages haven't been updated seems backwards...

> I don't want to use systemd as a stick to beat people^maintainers
> with

I don't think "using it as a stick" is the right way to view it. My
view is just that you shouldn't consider it your problem if other pcre-
using packages haven't been updated. The functionality is useful enough
to enable on its own merits - it's not "using the package as a stick"
or anything like that.

If people want to make it a priority to only have one pcre lib, they
should work on updating the other packages. That doesn't mean you
should view depending on pcre2 to be "forcing" them to do that. Just
that if they don't, they'll have to live with 2 libs. And that's
perfectly reasonable, and preferable to the alternative of making it
your responsibility to update other packages or to hold back
dependencies on pcre2.