Re: Packages marked as testing auto-removel due to bug#999962
Manphiz <manphiz@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear Emacsen Maintainers,
>
> It looks like a few Emacsen packages are marked as testing auto-removal
> due to bug#999962[1]. It looks like this pcre to pcre2 migration is
> non-trivial, and the upstream of silversearcher-ag[2] seems to be silent
> since Dec. 2020. The list of affected packages are in [3]. As most of
> them have silversearcher-ag as an optional dependency, should it be
> considered to drop silversearcher-ag support for now and wait for the
> fixes or alternatives to be available before re-enabling the support?
>
I'm not a silversearch-ag user, but your suggestion makes sense to me.
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