Your message dated Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:51:39 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1094807: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #797062, regarding pcre3: Please ship pcretest again to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: pcre3 Version: 2:8.35-7.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, I really liked pcretest but it was removed in pcre3 8.12-4 - see #616660. The attached patch adds a `pcretest` package that contains this binary and its — quite substantial! — manpage. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk `-diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index d4690c0..4723935 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -93,6 +93,17 @@ Description: grep utility that uses perl 5 compatible regexes. The other reason for the existence of pcregrep is that its source code is an example of programming with libpcre. +Package: pcretest +Section: utils +Architecture: any +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Description: Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - test utility + This is a library of functions to support regular expressions whose syntax + and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language. + . + This package contains the pcretest test program which can be used for + experimenting with regular expressions. + Package: libpcre16-3 Section: libs Architecture: any diff --git a/debian/pcretest.install b/debian/pcretest.install new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86f857f --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/pcretest.install @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +debian/tmp/usr/bin/pcretest +debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/pcretest.1 diff --git a/debian/pcretest.links b/debian/pcretest.links new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04eb07f --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/pcretest.links @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +usr/share/doc/libpcre3 usr/share/doc/pcretest
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2:8.39-15.1+rm Dear submitter, as the package pcre3 has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1094807 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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