Bug#891197: Please switch to pcre2

Andreas Tille writes: > Finally it seems to boil down to change four files of real code Right, usage is centralized via wrappers, so they'll need extensive changes but with any luck nothing else should (apart from necessary build-system adjustments). At any rate, upstream is now open to moving

Bug#891197: Please switch to pcre2

Hi Aaron, Am Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 06:20:15PM -0500 schrieb Aaron M. Ucko: > Andreas Tille writes: > > > it would be great if you could use your upstream contact to convince > > them to switch to pcre2. > > Upstream explicitly passed on pcre2 a few years ago, but times have > changed; I've

Bug#891197: Please switch to pcre2

Andreas Tille writes: > it would be great if you could use your upstream contact to convince > them to switch to pcre2. Upstream explicitly passed on pcre2 a few years ago, but times have changed; I've opened an internal ticket to revisit the question. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at

Bug#891197: Please switch to pcre2

Hi Aaron, it would be great if you could use your upstream contact to convince them to switch to pcre2. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Bug#891197: Please switch to pcre2

Laurent Bigonville writes: > Any reasons why it still depending on the old version? That's the only version it actually supports. Yes, it's possible to build ncbi-blast+ with libpcre2-dev present and libpcre-dev absent -- but that's only because it falls back on a convenience

Bug#891197: Please switch to pcre2

Package: ncbi-blast+ Version: 2.7.1-1+b1 Severity: normal Hi, I see that ncbi-blast+ package supports both (old) pcre and (new) pcre2 library. Any reasons why it still depending on the old version? Shouldn't it be switched to the new (pcre2) one? Kind regards, Laurent Bigonville -- System