Bug#999985: [pound] Bug#999985: pound: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-23 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Hi Robert, indeed, the package names in Debian are a bit confusing. Debian's libpcre3-dev contains "pcreposix.h" and libpcre2-dev contains pcre2posix.h. The latter, as you note, is not picked up by configure. For the moment I'll disable linking to pcre in Debian unstable until pcre2posix.h works

Bug#999985: pound: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Hi Robert, apparently the pcre library (named pcre3 in Debian) is obsolete and it is recommended to switch to pcre2. See the Debian bug report below. "Bookworm" is the next Debian release, which is planned for 2023. "In time for the release of Bookworm" would probably mean a removal from the