Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Le 18/11/2021 à 12:49, Matthew Vernon a écrit : > Source: apache2 > Severity: important > User: [email protected] > Usertags: obsolete-pcre3 > > Dear maintainer, > > Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] libraries > (i.e. libpcre3-dev). This has been end of life for a while now, and > upstream do not intend to fix any further bugs in it. Accordingly, I > would like to remove the pcre3 libraries from Debian, preferably in > time for the release of Bookworm. > > The newer PCRE2 library was first released in 2015, and has been in > Debian since stretch. Upstream's documentation for PCRE2 is available > here: https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/ > > Many large projects that use PCRE have made the switch now (e.g. git, > php); it does involve some work, but we are now at the stage where > PCRE3 should not be used, particularly if it might ever be exposed to > untrusted input. > > This mass bug filing was discussed on debian-devel@ in > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00176.html > > Regards, > > Matthew [0] Historical reasons mean that old PCRE is packaged as > pcre3 in Debian
Sadly pcre2 does not provide /usr/bin/pcre-config, I'm unable to do this change
