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Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm



Hi,

On 13/11/2021 11:41, Matthew Vernon wrote:

TL;DR> pcre3 is obsolete and upstream don't want to fix it any more. I propose a MBF to track our progress in getting rid of it for Bookworm

Bookworm is now out; I will shortly be increasing the severity of the outstanding bugs to RC, with the intention being to remove src:pcre3 from Debian before the trixie release.

While upstream never did produce a porting guide, though there was some useful discussion of some of the issues on the relevant issue report[0]; additionally, the glib gregex change set to make the change is quite comprehensive[1].

Regards,

Matthew
[0] https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/issues/51
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/2529


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