[Bug 280079] Move textproc/rasqal to pcre2

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280079

Jason E. Hale <jhale@FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|New                         |Open
                 CC|                            |jhale@FreeBSD.org,
                   |                            |office@FreeBSD.org
              Flags|maintainer-feedback?(kde@Fr |maintainer-feedback+
                   |eeBSD.org)                  |

--- Comment #1 from Jason E. Hale <jhale@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to tjlegg from comment #0)

In the current port, just changing the dependency in the Makefile is not the
right thing to do as pcre2 won't be detected by the configure script and rasqal
will fall back to using the POSIX regex library when built in a clean
environment. All users would then have a needless dependency on pcre2 and those
who build on live systems with pcre installed would have a missing dependency
on pcre since it will be used if detected by default.

IMO we have 3 options:
1. Update the port to the git version and use pcre2.
2. Remove the pcre dependency entirely and use POSIX regex.
3. Do nothing since pcre, while marked DEPRECATED, doesn't have an
EXPIRATION_DATE set and has no known security vulnerabilities.

The only consumers of rasqal are textproc/redland and
textproc/redland-bindings. Nothing uses the bindings and the only current
consumers of redland are editors/libreoffice and editors/openoffice-*. kde@ has
historical reasons for maintaining rasqal and redland and we've just been
holding on to them since there hasn't been much upstream activity over the
years, but they would now probably be better off in the hands of office@. Not
trying to pass the buck, but I'm just not that familiar with the office suites
and what effects changing this port may have.

Personally, I'm more in favor of option #2, but I'm CC'ing office@ to get their
opinion and see if they want to take over maintainership of textproc/raptor2,
textproc/rasqal, and textproc/redland* since they're irrelevant to KDE these
days and only relevant to office@-maintained ports.

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