Hi,
On 18/11/2021 14:10, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 11:49:04 +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] libraries
(i.e. libpcre3-dev).
As I'm sure you're already aware, in the case of GLib this is something
that needs to be resolved upstream, and is not appropriate to change as
a Debian patch.
I agree; I expect many of these bugs will need fixing upstream; but it's
useful for Debian both to track our collective progress in getting to
the point where we can ditch pcre3, and I think useful to raise
awareness with upstreams about the need to move to pcre2.
Christian Persch has apparently done a proof-of-concept port to PCRE2, but
has not shared the result in any obvious way, so the next step would be for
someone to either persuade Christian to share the resulting branch, or
reimplement it.
It would be great if Christian could publish his branch for review (and
hopefully incorporation into Glib) :) Do you think he'd likely respond
positively to you asking him to do so?
Thanks,
Matthew
