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 Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1666264/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
