Bug#1049405: ITP: pcre2-ocaml -- OCaml bindings for PCRE2
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org
* Package name : pcre2-ocaml
Version : 0.0.0~git20230408
* URL : https://github.com/tobil4sk/pcre2-ocaml
* License : LGPL-2.1+
Programming Lang: C, OCaml
Description : OCaml bindings for PCRE2
This OCaml-library interfaces the PCRE2 (Perl-compatibility
regular expressions) C library. it can be used for matching
regular expressions which are written in Perl style.
This is basically pcre-ocaml, which is threatened to be removed from
Debian because of #1000004 (depends on obsolete pcre), ported to pcre2
by tobil4sk. Neither pcre-ocaml original author [1], nor tobil4sk [2]
seem to want to maintain the new bindings upstream, but Chet Murthy
has offerred [3] to take this role.
Since some upstreams of reverse-dependencies of pcre-ocaml (liquidsoap
[4], camlp5 [5]) have expressed interest to switch to these new
bindings nonetheless, I decided to package them for Debian.
The package will be maintained in the OCaml team.
[1] https://github.com/mmottl/pcre-ocaml/issues/25#issuecomment-1014792185
[2] https://github.com/mmottl/pcre-ocaml/issues/25#issuecomment-1483806201
[3] https://github.com/mmottl/pcre-ocaml/issues/25#issuecomment-1676463732
[4] https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap/pull/3277
[5] https://github.com/camlp5/camlp5/issues/101#issuecomment-1678163219
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Stéphane
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