David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes: > Manphiz <manp...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Dear Emacsen Maintainers, >> >> It looks like a few Emacsen packages are marked as testing auto-removal >> due to bug#999962[1]. It looks like this pcre to pcre2 migration is >> non-trivial, and the upstream of silversearcher-ag[2] seems to be silent >> since Dec. 2020. The list of affected packages are in [3]. As most of >> them have silversearcher-ag as an optional dependency, should it be >> considered to drop silversearcher-ag support for now and wait for the >> fixes or alternatives to be available before re-enabling the support? >> > > I'm not a silversearch-ag user, but your suggestion makes sense to me. > > d
Thanks David! I've prepared a merge request[1] on emacs-wgrep to implement this idea. Would be great to have your reviews and comments. If this is an acceptable direction to go forward I will do similar work on other affect packages. Thanks! [1] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/emacs-wgrep/-/merge_requests/1 -- Manphiz
