Hi, I decided to adopt the package regexx (a C++ wrapper to the GNU regex functions). It is orphoned last month (#263873), because the original maintainer is leaving debian. On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually contains a copy of pcre (Perl-compatible regular expression library), but libpcre3 is already in the deabin archive. On the other hand, the pcre code contained in regexx is quite out of date, only version 3.4 (22-Aug-00), while the source package of libpcre3 has version 4.5 (01-Dec-03). I think it would be better to use the libpcre3 library, make regexx easier to maintain, and more up to date. Before I start working on it, I would like know whether this is the best practice, and whether there are any pitfalls. Thanks and regards, Qingning
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