FS#66064 - [jq] No longer has dependency on oniguruma

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Yuri Pieters (MageJohn) - Wednesday, 01 April 2020, 12:19 GMT
Last edited by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Wednesday, 01 April 2020, 13:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Evgeniy Alexeev (arcan1s)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
jq version 1.6 no longer has a runtime dependency on oniguruma, and instead has a builtin version.
To build with the builtin version use: ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin

jq is advertised on it's website as having zero runtime dependencies, and making this change
would make this true on Arch Linux (apart from glibc, of course).

Additional info:
Upstream release notes: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.6

This was discussed as with regards to Ubuntu
packaging in this issue here: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1412
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Closed by  Jonas Witschel (diabonas)
Wednesday, 01 April 2020, 13:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Arch doesn't statically link dependencies
Comment by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Wednesday, 01 April 2020, 13:00 GMT
Arch, like most other Linux distributions, strives to avoid such vendored dependencies wherever possible: statically linking oniguruma means that jq doesn't automatically use the latest version if oniguruma is updated, it will have to be rebuilt manually. This is especially bad if the new version e.g. fixes security issues or crashes.

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