Background ----------------- pcre3 is the poorly-named old library. pcre2 is a new incompatible version.
2 years ago, vte and gnome-terminal upstream switched from pcre3 to pcre2. The Foundations & Security teams did not like the idea of having 2 pcre libraries in main, so the Desktop Team has been forced to maintain extensive patches to keep gnome-terminal updated in Ubuntu. Since then, an increasing number of packages now support pcre2 and the burden of keeping pcre2 out of main is affecting more Ubuntu teams and developers. For instance, my understanding is that php7.3 (which will be released in about 2 weeks) requires pcre2. The situation with pcre2 is complicated because there are still large number of projects in main that aren't working on switching to pcre2 so we will likely need to keep pcre3 in main for a while. So I am opening a discussion about whether it is now time for pcre2 to be promoted to main in addition to pcre3. References ----------------- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1636666 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1792544 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
