Feature #1769
closed
pcre minor version detection during compile - Debian
Added by Peter Manev about 8 years ago.
Updated almost 8 years ago.
Description
Related to - https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1693
Currently Debian Jessie has pcre version - 2:8.35-3.3+deb8u4 - which is not prone to the issue. Since the 8.35 part of the version will not be increased it is helpful if the minor version is taken into account when blacklisting (or not) the pcre version on Debian during compile.
- Description updated (diff)
I'm not convinced this is worth the effort. Other Debian based distro's may have different package naming/versioning. The blacklisting can already be disabled by specifying --with-libpcre-includes/libraries on the configure line.
So we're keeping it as it is?
There is a workaround for sure.
Not sure of the effort needed - Jessie would not change the naming most likely but other versions might indeed which can result in bigger (per version) support effort. So if it is going to become one of those (and looking into variations of minor versions of the pkg) - I would rather not chase it further.
On the other hand Jessie is going to be stable for a while I suspect so wondering if there is a an "easy" way out?
I guess we should leave it as it is, the workaround is fine and could be applied by the suricata package maintainer as well.
And no one complained yet :)
It would mess up the config a bit and thus I would keep it the way it is for now.
- Status changed from New to Closed
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