On Thursday, November 18, 2021 8:06:55 AM EST Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On November 18, 2021 11:49:06 AM UTC, Matthew Vernon
wrote:
> >Source: postfix
> >Severity: important
> >User: matthew-pcre...@debian.org
> >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
>
> I've investigated this and some non-trivial porting is needed. I've
> discussed this with upstream and it's one their TODO list for the next
> postfix release.
It's implemented now for postfix 3.7, so this should be closed well before our
next release.
Scott K
