New re-flex library package?
Benjamin Redelings <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:03:38 -0400
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Hi debian-med + Ricardo, Would anyone anyone would be able to package the re-flex lexer generator? It provides a mostly drop-in replacement for the venerable `flex` software, plus extensions for unicode handling and other things: https://github.com/Genivia/RE-flex I'm asking because version 4.3 of my bali-phy software is going to link against libreflex. bali-phy is packaged in Debian -- thanks so much to the debian-med team! -- but re-flex does not have a Debian package. Interestingly, it seems like the ugrep package contains a vendored copy of re-flex, so there are now at least two packages that depend on re-flex. I've Cc-ed Ricardo, who is the maintainer for ugrep. The re-flex author seems relatively responsive, so I think he would be relatively easy to work with, if needed. I have submitted some PRs to re-flex, and they seem to get a reply within a week. If there are some issues that come up, I'm happy to help out. thanks again, -BenRI