Andreas: No, it’s not a bug. PCRE2 is a new project that’s not intended to be compatible with the older PCRE (i.e. what Debian misnamed “pcre3”). The API is completely different and this is expected. See bug 1636666 for context, and specifically the PCRE2 release announcement linked in the bug description:
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20150105.162835.0666407a.en.html That’s why getting rid of PCRE “in favor of” PCRE2 is a pointless way to frame the issue. PCRE2 neither replaces nor conflicts with PCRE, as was pointed out many times in bug 1636666. But since we’re apparently gathering information here: although Apache 2.4.x does not support PCRE2, Apache trunk does support PCRE2 as of r1773454. (As you can see, this support was added by creating separate conditionally compiled code paths for PCRE and PCRE2.) https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/b1a3338e011a17ad190fb7f66cf5ca9acf353570 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #757140 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757140 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to grep in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792544 Title: demotion of pcre3 in favor of pcre2 Status in aide package in Ubuntu: New Status in apache2 package in Ubuntu: New Status in apr-util package in Ubuntu: New Status in clamav package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in exim4 package in Ubuntu: New Status in freeradius package in Ubuntu: New Status in git package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu: New Status in grep package in Ubuntu: New Status in haproxy package in Ubuntu: New Status in libpam-mount package in Ubuntu: New Status in libselinux package in Ubuntu: New Status in nginx package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in nmap package in Ubuntu: New Status in pcre3 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in php7.2 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in postfix package in Ubuntu: New Status in python-pyscss package in Ubuntu: New Status in quagga package in Ubuntu: New Status in rasqal package in Ubuntu: New Status in slang2 package in Ubuntu: New Status in sssd package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in wget package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in zsh package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: demotion of pcre3 in favor of pcre2. These packages need analysis what needs to be done for the demotion of pcre3: Packages which are ready to build with pcre2 should be marked as 'Triaged', packages which are not ready should be marked as 'Incomplete'. aide apache2 apr-util clamav exim4 freeradius git glib2.0 grep haproxy libpam-mount libselinux nginx nmap php7.2 postfix python-pyscss quagga rasqal slang2 sssd wget zsh ------ For clarification: pcre2 is actually newer than pcre3. pcre3 is just poorly named (according to jbicha). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aide/+bug/1792544/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
