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 pcre3 is obsolete and upstream don't want to fix it any more.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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