Andreas: No, it’s not a bug.  PCRE2 is a new project that’s not intended
to be compatible with the older PCRE (i.e. what Debian misnamed
“pcre3”).  The API is completely different and this is expected.  See
bug 1636666 for context, and specifically the PCRE2 release announcement
linked in the bug description:

https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20150105.162835.0666407a.en.html

That’s why getting rid of PCRE “in favor of” PCRE2 is a pointless way to
frame the issue.  PCRE2 neither replaces nor conflicts with PCRE, as was
pointed out many times in bug 1636666.

But since we’re apparently gathering information here: although Apache
2.4.x does not support PCRE2, Apache trunk does support PCRE2 as of
r1773454.  (As you can see, this support was added by creating separate
conditionally compiled code paths for PCRE and PCRE2.)

https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/b1a3338e011a17ad190fb7f66cf5ca9acf353570

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #757140
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757140

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