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Bug#999930: marked as done (watchman: depends on obsolete pcre3 library)

Your message dated Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:35:17 +0000
with message-id <E1v16v7-0034FR-2y@fasolo.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#999930: fixed in watchman 4.9.0-9
has caused the Debian Bug report #999930,
regarding watchman: depends on obsolete pcre3 library
to be marked as done.

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Source: watchman
Severity: important
User: matthew-pcredep@debian.org
Usertags: obsolete-pcre3

Dear maintainer,

Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] libraries
(i.e. libpcre3-dev). This has been end of life for a while now, and
upstream do not intend to fix any further bugs in it. Accordingly, I
would like to remove the pcre3 libraries from Debian, preferably in
time for the release of Bookworm.

The newer PCRE2 library was first released in 2015, and has been in
Debian since stretch. Upstream's documentation for PCRE2 is available
here: https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/

Many large projects that use PCRE have made the switch now (e.g. git,
php); it does involve some work, but we are now at the stage where
PCRE3 should not be used, particularly if it might ever be exposed to
untrusted input.

This mass bug filing was discussed on debian-devel@ in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00176.html

Regards,

Matthew [0] Historical reasons mean that old PCRE is packaged as
pcre3 in Debian

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Source: watchman
Source-Version: 4.9.0-9
Done: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
watchman, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 999930@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> (supplier of updated watchman package)

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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:25:46 -0400
Source: watchman
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 4.9.0-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>
Closes: 999930
Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed: 2103908
Changes:
 watchman (4.9.0-9) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload
   * Cherry-pick patch to port from the old pcre to pcre2 (Closes: #999930)
     (LP: #2103908)
   * Update Build-Depends
   * Update debian/upstream/metadata to use yaml format
   * Remove debian/watch to use automatic uscan support instead
   * Add minimal debian/gbp.conf
   * Refresh patches
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