Re: why are db5 and pcre being installed as dependencies in pkgs from -current pkg.f.o

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 09:15:42AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:

>Note: the above are general comments that suggest the result may not be
>surprising. I did not analyze the specifics for the timing related to
>db5 and pcre .

pcre was EoL'd on 2021-06-21 going by
https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt
and marked deprecated on 29 Feb 2024 in
https://www.freshports.org/devel/pcre/

db5, according to https://www.freshports.org/databases/db5/

Deprecated: EOLd, potential security issues, maybe use db18 instead
This port expired on: 2022-06-30
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