** Changed in: vte2.91 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Description changed:

  gnome-terminal and vte are still at their 3.20 (and 0.44) versions
  because they now hard-depend on pcre2, but the pcre2 MIR (LP: #1636666)
  has stalled because there is already one version of pcre in main and it
  would be a major task to convert all of main to use pcre2.
  
  So I reverted 3 commits for gnome-terminal and 5 for vte to make that
  MIR less urgent. I am concerned about the long-term maintainability of
  this approach - the vte patch is over 1600 lines.
  
  gnome-terminal 3.22 and vte 0.46 have been tested in the GNOME3 Staging
  PPA for yakkety and zesty for months. I am not aware of any issues from
  that. This is slightly different since I haven't tested those versions
  without pcre2 until this weekend.
  
  The development cycle for gnome-terminal and vte has been fairly quiet
  so I believe it's safe to go ahead and update gnome-terminal to 3.23.90
  and vte to 0.47.90.
  
  https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/log
  https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/log
  
+ The packages are currently available for testing at
  
- The packages are currently available for testing at
- https://launchpad.net/~jbicha/+archive/ubuntu/dev2/+packages
+ 
https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+packages?field.series_filter=zesty

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Title:
  FFe: Update gnome-terminal to 3.24 and vte to 0.48

Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  gnome-terminal and vte are still at their 3.20 (and 0.44) versions
  because they now hard-depend on pcre2, but the pcre2 MIR (LP:
  #1636666) has stalled because there is already one version of pcre in
  main and it would be a major task to convert all of main to use pcre2.

  So I reverted 3 commits for gnome-terminal and 5 for vte to make that
  MIR less urgent. I am concerned about the long-term maintainability of
  this approach - the vte patch is over 1600 lines.

  gnome-terminal 3.22 and vte 0.46 have been tested in the GNOME3
  Staging PPA for yakkety and zesty for months. I am not aware of any
  issues from that. This is slightly different since I haven't tested
  those versions without pcre2 until this weekend.

  The development cycle for gnome-terminal and vte has been fairly quiet
  so I believe it's safe to go ahead and update gnome-terminal to
  3.23.90 and vte to 0.47.90.

  https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/log
  https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/log

  The packages are currently available for testing at

  
https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+packages?field.series_filter=zesty

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