I have an upstream bug report for tilix in Ubuntu 17.10 where the VTE is complaining about not supporting PCRE2 despite VTE reporting that it is version 0.48.2 which should support it.
https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/916 Is this caused by Ubuntu going with the #3 option and reverting the PCRE2 commits in VTE? If so this is going to cause issues with any VTE based terminal emulator that is relying on checking the version number to determine available VTE functionality. Any plans on correcting this with a hot fix? ** Bug watch added: github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues #916 https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/916 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666264 Title: FFe: Update gnome-terminal to 3.24 and vte to 0.48 Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1666264/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
