Bug#999931: virtuoso-opensource: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Yavor,

On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:18:20 +0200 Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> Please find attached a patch; build-tested only (although the
> package's own testsuite has some checks which test this
> functionality).

Thanks for the patch, I uploaded it to Debian and so far noone 
complained ;-)

But the patch doesn't apply cleanly on newer virtuoso-opensource 
versions, there are actually changes in pcre usage in libsrc/Wi/sqlbif.h 
that require adjustments. Could you take a look again and update the 
patch? I've never worked with (any version of) pcre (from the programmer 
persepective, I'm probably using it frequently as a user everywhere :-)).

I've updated the Debian packaging in
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/virtuoso-opensource.git
and created a try-7.2.12 branch (which has your patch (and some more) 
disabled and switched back to pcre3). This builds, but probably needs 
more updates before it is ready. But it should serve as a starting point 
for updating pcre2.patch.

Thanks

Andreas