Bug#1094807: RM: pcre3 -- ROM; Long obsolete

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025, Matthew Vernon wrote: > I'm sorry that my MBF didn't find the issue; presumably the package concerned > didn't specify a Build-Depends on pcre3? Yes, exactly: it was only used in debian/tests/control as runtime dependency for autopkgtests, to work around a bug in GNU grep (wh

Bug#1094807: RM: pcre3 -- ROM; Long obsolete

Hi, On 23/03/2025 22:19, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: I agree. I checked all the breakage Unfortunately, neither got the debian/tests/control dependencies, so I had the pleasure to receive an RC bug in my package, which used pcregrep, this short befor

Bug#1094807: RM: pcre3 -- ROM; Long obsolete

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: >I agree. I checked all the breakage Unfortunately, neither got the debian/tests/control dependencies, so I had the pleasure to receive an RC bug in my package, which used pcregrep, this short before the freeze, with no advance notice at all. Please

Bug#1094807:

I agree. I checked all the breakage, nothing is in testing, and there's been ample time to react. The breakage here is worth the upside. I think ganeti is in use by DSA; hopefully someone can get that back into good shape. Thanks for your work over many years! Paul -- :wq

Bug#1094807: -moreinfo

tags 1094807 - moreinfo thanks I was closing tabs and I re-read the bug here. I understand now that the ask is that we do the removal since the maintainers of the r-deps / r-build-deps haven't acted since 2021, and the maintenance burden here isn't worth any shipping, and there's still time to rea

Bug#1094807: moreinfo

tags 1094807 moreinfo thanks Gotcha! Thanks for dealing with this migration - it's a sticky one. I'd be happy to help with other removals as needed that are blocking this one. I'm adding the moreinfo tag so that we don't trip over this every time through the removal queues -- but this all looks i

Bug#1094807: RM: pcre3 -- ROM; Long obsolete

Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: remove X-Debbugs-Cc: pc...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:pcre3 Control: block 1071970 by -1 Hi, PCRE2 was released in 2015, and PCRE3 has been obsolete for years now (final end-of-life rele