Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie> writes: >> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: >>> Bookworm is now out; I will shortly be increasing the severity of >>> the outstanding bugs to RC, with the intention being to remove >>> src:pcre3 from Debian before the trixie release.
[snip] > There's significant work creating and testing patches for this > transition. Marking removal is too much. PCRE upstream have been wanting to be shot of old-pcre for a very long time now (pcre2 has been available since 2015, and was first in Debian stretch), and it's been essentially unsupported for a number of years now; I had originally hoped we could ditch it from bookworm. I thought the beginning of a release cycle was the natural time to bump to RC severity to try and make sure we can remove pcre3 in good time for trixie. Regards, Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org
