On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 at 09:53:02 +0200, Tiziano Zito wrote: > Installing pcre2 by default would maybe motivate the grep maintainers > to migrate away from the deprecated libpcre3 and move to libpcre2-posix0 > instead...
Opening a bug on the grep package seems a more reliable way to communicate with the grep maintainers than making changes to a different package. I've opened <https://bugs.debian.org/907651> and <https://bugs.debian.org/907652>. smcv