Just throwing my hat in the ring as absolutely no one of influence: I think reverting functionality that is understood to be in a particular version of a package is inviting breakage.
If VTE 0.48.x is understood to have PCRE2 support, as announced by the VTE developers, then applications that depend on it are free to assume they can use that functionality. If Ubuntu patches that out, then you are going to break code that makes such an assumption. What's going on with Tilix is a good example of this. The best option here is #1, to add PCRE2 into main. Based on my reading of #1636666, it really isn't that big a deal, but if the maintainers are dead set against it, then do #2 leave gnome terminal and VTE at their lower version numbers until there is more impetus to switch. #3 is objectively the wrong decision. -- 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
