Package: libpcre2-dev Version: 10.42-4 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: libgoby-j...@packages.debian.org, g...@packages.debian.org, passwordmaker-...@packages.debian.org
Hi! I was recently in need of switching some C++ projects using libpcrecpp from PCRE to PCRE2, when I realized the C++ library didn't exist anymore in PCRE2, so started by using the C API. But then checked again and noticed that the natural successor for the C++ library which had been contributed by Google, would be now the RE2 library, which has a very closed API and the diff then becomes very tiny. Debian (libre2-dev), Upstream (https://github.com/google/re2) I think to help other unsuspecting users, it would be very helpful if the libpcre2-dev package description could mention something along the lines of: The libpcrecpp library is no longer provided by this package, but its natural successor is the libre2-dev package, both developed by Google. I've CCed (or directly contacted upstream when the patch had already been merged there) the few packages that did the switch already in Debian using the C API, and where the patch seems a bit unwieldy compared to the previous C++ API: https://sources.debian.org/src/vdr-plugin-live/3.1.3-3/debian/patches/pcre2.patch https://sources.debian.org/src/libgoby-java/3.3.1+dfsg2-11/debian/patches/using_pcre2.patch https://sources.debian.org/src/gpt/1.1-8/debian/patches/pcre2.patch https://sources.debian.org/src/passwordmaker-cli/1.5+dfsg-6/debian/patches/pcre2.patch Thanks, Guillem
