Hi debian-med + Ricardo,
Would anyone anyone would be able to package the re-flex lexer
generator? It provides a mostly drop-in replacement for the venerable
`flex` software, plus extensions for unicode handling and other things:
https://github.com/Genivia/RE-flex
I'm asking because version 4.3 of my bali-phy software is going to link
against libreflex. bali-phy is packaged in Debian -- thanks so much to
the debian-med team! -- but re-flex does not have a Debian package.
Interestingly, it seems like the ugrep package contains a vendored copy
of re-flex, so there are now at least two packages that depend on
re-flex. I've Cc-ed Ricardo, who is the maintainer for ugrep.
The re-flex author seems relatively responsive, so I think he would be
relatively easy to work with, if needed. I have submitted some PRs to
re-flex, and they seem to get a reply within a week. If there are some
issues that come up, I'm happy to help out.
thanks again,
-BenRI
