As mentioned in 8ffb3d9, required changes were merged into upstream. Version packaged for Debian 12 seems to contain these changes. Ubuntu 22.04 mentioned in commit description is based on Debian 12. universal-ctags has the same version string in both repos. https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/universal-ctags https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/universal-ctags
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