Bug#1000082: glib2.0: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

[Matthew Vernon]

Hi,

On 18/11/2021 14:10, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 11:49:04 +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
>> Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] libraries
>> (i.e. libpcre3-dev).
> 
> As I'm sure you're already aware, in the case of GLib this is something
> that needs to be resolved upstream, and is not appropriate to change as
> a Debian patch.

I agree; I expect many of these bugs will need fixing upstream; but it's 
useful for Debian both to track our collective progress in getting to 
the point where we can ditch pcre3, and I think useful to raise 
awareness with upstreams about the need to move to pcre2.

> Christian Persch has apparently done a proof-of-concept port to PCRE2, but
> has not shared the result in any obvious way, so the next step would be for
> someone to either persuade Christian to share the resulting branch, or
> reimplement it.

It would be great if Christian could publish his branch for review (and 
hopefully incorporation into Glib) :) Do you think he'd likely respond 
positively to you asking him to do so?

Thanks,

Matthew