Hi,
On 09/09/2019 12:56, Gedalya wrote:
On 9/9/19 3:14 AM, Sam Kuper wrote:
Please could you comment on whether `pcre2test` meets your needs,
such that Debian Developers[1] need not expend effort packaging
`pcretest`?
It's worth noting that pcre2test doesn't use the same library and is
not guaranteed to behave the same way as the old pcre.
Packages still using the old pcre (source package pcre3) far
outnumber the ones already using the new pcre2. Apart from php7.3
which is already on pcre2, some very widely used packages still on
the old pcre include exim4, nginx, mariadb, apache2.
That's true, but upstream have all but abandoned the old PCRE, and I'm
hoping to remove it from Debian in due course.
Having said that, it's plausible that pcre2test will be good enough
in practice and behave equivalently to old pcre in most cases.
From my POV, there is very little value to restoring pcretest to Debian
given that old-PCRE is on the way to being at least deprecated, and
pcre2test is in Debian.
Regards,
Matthew
