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Likely we should retire this package. @loganjerry what do you think?
We should retire it. But there is one more package that depends on it, ocaml-ocamlnet. Do you use that? If so, we'll have to port it to ocaml-pcre2.
Yeah it'd be kind of nice not to lose that. Let me ask Gerd Stolpmann if he has plans.
https://gitlab.com/gerdstolpmann/lib-ocamlnet3/-/work_items/30 However it looks like we can disable the PCRE dependency entirely which will drop a subpackage (netstring-pcre) that looks fairly unimportant.
This is a rough and ready scratch build (of ocamlnet): https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=143965967
Since that built OK, I submitted a proper build: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=143966651
Looking at the Fedora retirement process: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_Process/ It suggests adding Obsoletes/Provides but I don't feel that is appropriate here. It suggests adding the package to fedora-obsolete-packages, which could be a good idea. It is listed in comps (for some reason) and will need to be removed: https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/main/f/comps-f45.xml.in#_4116 I think there's nothing else to do.
For comps: https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/1261
For fedora-obsolete-packages: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-obsolete-packages/pull-request/134
That all looks great to me.
This is retired now: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ocaml-pcre/c/a32486eee2434b8c6a7754acace8ce4bf8d5e134?branch=rawhide Sadly I forgot to reference this bug in the commit message.