On 2006-01-29 Bart Martens <bart.martens <at> advalvas.be> wrote:
> Package: libpcre3
> Version: 6.4-1.1
> Severity: wishlist

> It would be nice to see libpcre.so* installed in /lib so that the -P
> option in grep can be enabled.  See also bugs #238237, #237071, #338401,
> #338500, (...?).  According to these webpages, redhat installs
> libpcre.so* in /lib since 2001, for the very same reason :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41104
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/pcre-4.5-3.i386.html
[...]

(SID)ametzler <at> argenau:~$ apt-cache show grep libpcre3 | \
          egrep '^Pack|^Prio|^Ess'
Package: grep
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Package: libpcre3
Priority: standard

If standard grep linked against libpcre, libpcre's priority would nee
to be bumped and it would become quasi-essential.

This would require at least discussion on debian-devel.
             cu andreas

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