Bug#1094807: RM: pcre3 -- ROM; Long obsolete

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025, Matthew Vernon wrote: > I'm sorry that my MBF didn't find the issue; presumably the package concerned > didn't specify a Build-Depends on pcre3? Yes, exactly: it was only used in debian/tests/control as runtime dependency for autopkgtests, to work around a bug in GNU grep (wh

Bug#1094807: RM: pcre3 -- ROM; Long obsolete

Hi, On 23/03/2025 22:19, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: I agree. I checked all the breakage Unfortunately, neither got the debian/tests/control dependencies, so I had the pleasure to receive an RC bug in my package, which used pcregrep, this short befor

Bug#1094807: RM: pcre3 -- ROM; Long obsolete

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: >I agree. I checked all the breakage Unfortunately, neither got the debian/tests/control dependencies, so I had the pleasure to receive an RC bug in my package, which used pcregrep, this short before the freeze, with no advance notice at all. Please

Bug#1094807: RM: pcre3 -- ROM; Long obsolete

Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: remove X-Debbugs-Cc: pc...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:pcre3 Control: block 1071970 by -1 Hi, PCRE2 was released in 2015, and PCRE3 has been obsolete for years now (final end-of-life rele