Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stéphane Glondu <glo...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : pcre2-ocaml Version : 0.0.0~git20230408 * URL : https://github.com/tobil4sk/pcre2-ocaml * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C, OCaml Description : OCaml bindings for PCRE2 This OCaml-library interfaces the PCRE2 (Perl-compatibility regular expressions) C library. it can be used for matching regular expressions which are written in Perl style. This is basically pcre-ocaml, which is threatened to be removed from Debian because of #1000004 (depends on obsolete pcre), ported to pcre2 by tobil4sk. Neither pcre-ocaml original author [1], nor tobil4sk [2] seem to want to maintain the new bindings upstream, but Chet Murthy has offerred [3] to take this role. Since some upstreams of reverse-dependencies of pcre-ocaml (liquidsoap [4], camlp5 [5]) have expressed interest to switch to these new bindings nonetheless, I decided to package them for Debian. The package will be maintained in the OCaml team. [1] https://github.com/mmottl/pcre-ocaml/issues/25#issuecomment-1014792185 [2] https://github.com/mmottl/pcre-ocaml/issues/25#issuecomment-1483806201 [3] https://github.com/mmottl/pcre-ocaml/issues/25#issuecomment-1676463732 [4] https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap/pull/3277 [5] https://github.com/camlp5/camlp5/issues/101#issuecomment-1678163219 -- Stéphane
