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Bug 837986

Summary: sys-libs/libselinux: consider dropping USE=pcre2
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Sam James <sam>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: SE Linux Bugs <selinux>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal Keywords: PullRequest
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844982
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/25729
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856295
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Bug Depends on: 855968    
Bug Blocks: 837980    

Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-04-12 07:25:11 UTC
Please consider making pcre2 mandatory as libpcre(1) is EOL.
Comment 1 Kenton Groombridge gentoo-dev 2022-05-18 20:18:16 UTC
SELinux userspace 3.4 is out with mcstrans ported to pcre2.

https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/releases/download/3.4/RELEASE-3.4.txt
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-06-04 01:03:50 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a245b6b7b1c3ad557610262c28eadb3bbc2ed19a

commit a245b6b7b1c3ad557610262c28eadb3bbc2ed19a
Author:     Kenton Groombridge <concord@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-06-02 13:50:52 +0000
Commit:     Kenton Groombridge <concord@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-06-04 01:02:53 +0000

    sys-libs/libselinux: make pcre2 unconditional
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/837986
    Signed-off-by: Kenton Groombridge <concord@gentoo.org>

 sys-libs/libselinux/libselinux-9999.ebuild | 19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Comment 3 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-12-05 01:39:32 UTC
Just needs cleanup now.