Bug#999962: RFS to solve bug#999962 (silversearcher-ag: depends on obsolete pcre3 library)

2023-09-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: tag -1 pending Manphiz writes: > Nicholas D Steeves writes: > >> Manphiz writes: >> >>> Nicholas D Steeves writes: Manphiz writes: > Manphiz writes: > >>> BTW, I'm not a DD or DMD yet so I'm probably not able to submit to >>> delayed queue yet, right? >> >> Right, the

Bug#999962: RFS to solve bug#999962 (silversearcher-ag: depends on obsolete pcre3 library)

2023-09-24 Thread Manphiz
Nicholas D Steeves writes: > Manphiz writes: > >> Nicholas D Steeves writes: >>> Manphiz writes: Manphiz writes: > [snip] >>> Then finalise the changelog and build the package. >>> >> >> Done as well. > > Thanks! > >>> Finally, learn about what an "nmudiff" is, and file one at the

Bug#999962: RFS to solve bug#999962 (silversearcher-ag: depends on obsolete pcre3 library)

2023-09-23 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Manphiz writes: > Nicholas D Steeves writes: >> Manphiz writes: >>> Manphiz writes: [snip] >> Then finalise the changelog and build the package. >> > > Done as well. Thanks! >> Finally, learn about what an "nmudiff" is, and file one at the relevant >> bug. >> > > To be careful I'd like to

Bug#999962: RFS to solve bug#999962 (silversearcher-ag: depends on obsolete pcre3 library)

2023-09-22 Thread Manphiz
Nicholas D Steeves writes: > I've moved this discussion from debian-emacsen to the relevant bug. > Please remove debian-emacsen from CC and add me to CC for all > follow-ups. > Dropped debian-emacsen@. > Manphiz writes: > >> Manphiz writes: >> >>> >>> Thanks Nicholas! I used licensecheck

Bug#999962: RFS to solve bug#999962 (silversearcher-ag: depends on obsolete pcre3 library)

2023-09-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
I've moved this discussion from debian-emacsen to the relevant bug. Please remove debian-emacsen from CC and add me to CC for all follow-ups. Manphiz writes: > Manphiz writes: > >> >> Thanks Nicholas! I used licensecheck and checked manually and updated >> d/copyright accordingly in my merge

Bug#999962: silversearcher-ag: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2023-09-06 Thread Manphiz
control: tags -1 patch Hi, Given sten's lead, I've attempted to adapt a "minimal" patch that implements pcre2 support in a merge request[1]. The patch is still large (~700 LOC) but it's strictly targeted on adding pcre2 support and adapted from an upstream branch/fork. The details of the patch

Bug#999962: silversearcher-ag: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2023-08-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Dear Hajime Mizuno, or whoever might be thinking about salvaging this package, The best solution appears to be encouraging and supporting this friendly fork: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/1515 The next best solution appears to be switching to a fork that fixed this