Your message dated Sun, 02 Dec 2018 18:34:28 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#907651: fixed in grep 3.1-3 has caused the Debian Bug report #907651, regarding grep: dlopens libpcre, but is directly linked to it anyway to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: grep Version: 3.1-2 Severity: normal The version of grep in Debian carries a patch to dlopen libpcre.so.3. However, it is also directly linked to libpcre.so.3 (objdump -Tx /bin/grep shows "NEEDED libpcre.so.3"), and will not execute without it. This also generates a hard dependency (in fact a Pre-Depends, because grep is Essential: yes). If the intention was to make grep -P opportunistically use libpcre.so.3 if present, but not use it if absent (like the way libopenal1 has a weak dependency on libasound2, libpulse0 and libportaudio2), then it should not be linked with -lpcre, only with -ldl. This will need some sort of patch to its build system. Alternatively, if grep -P is considered to be part of the Essential functionality of grep, then the dlopen patch can be dropped and it can just use libpcre like a normal library (the same as pcregrep). Please choose one or the other: the current situation is the worst of both worlds (you have the maintenance headache of the patch, but you still have the dependency). The changelog entry for 2.25-6 suggests that a weak dependency is what was intended. If so, then it should be possible for the upstream-test-suite-no-pcre3 autopkgtest to be reinstated and pass without libpcre3 installed. It would probably be also good to have an autopkgtest that runs "objdump -Tx /bin/grep | grep NEEDED" and asserts that libpcre is not in the output. smcv
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--- Begin Message ---Source: grep Source-Version: 3.1-3 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of grep, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Santiago Ruano Rincón <[email protected]> (supplier of updated grep package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 18:58:48 +0100 Source: grep Binary: grep Architecture: source Version: 3.1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[email protected]> Changed-By: Santiago Ruano Rincón <[email protected]> Description: grep - GNU grep, egrep and fgrep Closes: 532541 907651 915206 Changes: grep (3.1-3) unstable; urgency=low . [ Santiago Ruano Rincón ] * Add upstream-532541-doc-improve-o-help.patch: Improve help about -o. (Closes: #532541) * Remove debian/patches/03-397262-dlopen-pcre.patch: dlopen libpcre.so.3 has been actually wrongly applied and not really used. This patch does not make sense any more (since stretch), since late-mounting of /usr is not longer supported. (Closes: #907651) * Add upstream-915206-0001-tests-backref-alt-works-with-glibc-2.28.patch. Fix FTBFS with glibc 2.28. (Closes: #915206) * d/source/options: remove compression = "bzip2", let dpkg-deb select suitable defaults. . [ Ondřej Nový ] * d/copyright: Use https protocol in Format field * d/control: Remove Testsuite field, not needed anymore * d/changelog: Remove trailing whitespaces * d/rules: Remove trailing whitespaces * d/control: Set Vcs-* to salsa.debian.org Checksums-Sha1: 10e6a9075972d98a7be4812a6c400f0682af3c8a 2038 grep_3.1-3.dsc e6b06840b91b25a9030d36e0ea0b9cf7c560bb94 105700 grep_3.1-3.debian.tar.xz 4762a1871f8edee415778713aae0d16fee6edb2f 6066 grep_3.1-3_amd64.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: 6595e7c7a09e762480c9fc6e7f45534de903396f17f71862e939154ec51afbd0 2038 grep_3.1-3.dsc 0e549e73f47d007eee51cd49a28eeaee74d9698703b958a5fe0bdab291ddfbaa 105700 grep_3.1-3.debian.tar.xz 56163163dd701a4063d678b8528d40da49ff17db1c2e0e6ce3beeb1f86e3a4c6 6066 grep_3.1-3_amd64.buildinfo Files: 7a35ccb2e1ed7455b5bf2f924f2925a9 2038 utils required grep_3.1-3.dsc 08e50c382b41c5d1e41917f4c611bd89 105700 utils required grep_3.1-3.debian.tar.xz a61ba9d458b5c21e25f20109161c4fd1 6066 utils required grep_3.1-3_amd64.buildinfo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJIBAEBCgAyFiEEwUqnBPVvaa0NAVzHFX/a4RXx4q0FAlwEI/kUHHNhbnRpYWdv QGRlYmlhbi5vcmcACgkQFX/a4RXx4q0YDA//bqwJp3vW92BI+whF1iWxQF/xXwVG T6IhRqSrpgZWjaezHOE1TjQb+s23S4hRQJSSQPT/J+thc/j3co4heTmzpnNZrnIK 5XJHznQjddLxd/EjwhLBWN552CSFLS6BxoVUk/kI+N2Wbwhv06IRlG+Qdt9PwbXV OxEM/3HM9bCk5RqBFmWd3vOFcEc7rpxYR/s1LOM4NpDPsgwIof/D1DlvHBvnuyjb XyxKjJNQAAD/6SsF9Xc8HXkptESc2AjaMB0gcaOgUqHHBON7gmxSUTj3O0XE3F5G 7aT4Z6ItcqliT2mSZz3RP9rkloQOjeTa0go8T4N6+kKd8mf3MnEF2/HUK5Fqytmu myoxlPxutEwb6QukJ5U+OrEPb1jIDZquVMUIbuJV14wepjkKCYwHjXZnBoVFUcaC CGZfHsW5gEsZQjclt/uAW3JxGOi1g7cgauybecUiG57y/c5QhJp8Wtd0nnvEamnE EbnN4a8RfDDzid9LRp9GW8vKmwvbHnW+CWrJXPJERKb4qFslHEFcg6DR0HAISFDY mmsIQpP7V1PPEcOdpyHLKAv7xkSo7G75uOLaJx7qjTA73PdBKu1QBilxTFCHwD+r ZZ179HX4iKr0UJOjXxTwvYMOYQz8j18iefWfWKLe3cLkgwCUC/gd9IQoqwQtJ+rm QdY7iO4vcAslPx0= =Ix/r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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