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Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm



On Thursday, June 29, 2023 3:55:11 PM EDT Matthew Vernon wrote:
> 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 pcre3 is obsolete and upstream don't want to fix it any more.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

Here's the postfix change, for another example:

https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix/commit/
3b0ac407f313135ffd74e248ad88abd2ad6dfe09

Scott K

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