Bug#1000067: haskell-regex-pcre: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

[pdr at pdr.cx]

On Friday, 31 January 2025 at 11:40 PM, Bastian Germann <bage at debian.org> wrote:
> If you want to have haskell-regex migrating to testing, you should get rid of the haskell-regex-pcre
> dependency or fix this bug.

Thanks Bastian,

I should have some time this week to look at this.  My plan is to:

* contact the author/maintainer of haskell-regex-pcre to see what the status is (there is an open github issue from years ago)
* if the author is no longer interested in the project, fork a new haskell-regex-pcre2 package depending on libpcre2
* upload the new package to Hackage (the Haskell library repo)
* package it for Debian
* Work with upstream to make haskell-regex depend on haskell-regex-pcre2 instead (probably requires new major version as this would likely constitute an API change)

Kind regards,
Pete