Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Alastair McKinstry writes: >> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: >>> 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. [snip] >

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 02, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On the other hand, the bugs have been open for an year and a half now... For something which has worked just fine for many years. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 10:14:58AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > On 01/07/2023 14:44, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > Bookworm is now out; I will shortly be increasing the severity of > > > the outstanding bugs to RC, with the

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 01/07/2023 14:44, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: 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. You

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-01 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Matthew On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 20:18, Matthew Vernon wrote: > 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. Thanks for driving this forward! There's a

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 01, 2023 at 09:44:27AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: 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

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: 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. You don't think that marking packages for removal

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-06-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
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

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-06-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-06-29 20:55 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > 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

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-06-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
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

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2021-11-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Matthew Vernon writes: > User: matthew-pcre...@lists.debian.org Sigh, always one typo gets through. That should be: User: matthew-pcre...@debian.org Regards, Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org

Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2021-11-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, 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 PCRE is the perl-compatible regular expression library, https://pcre.org/ For historical reasons, the old PCRE library ended up as libpcre3 in