Source: imapfilter Version: 1:2.8.1-1 Severity: serious User: matthew-pcre...@debian.org Usertags: obsolete-pcre3
(wording copied from MBF by Matthew Vernon) Dear maintainer, Your package still build-depends on the old, obsolete PCRE libraries (i.e. libpcre3-dev). This has been end of life for a while now, and upstream do not intend to fix any further bugs in it. Accordingly, I would like to remove the pcre3 libraries from Debian. The newer PCRE2 library was first released in 2015, and has been in Debian since stretch. Upstream's documentation for PCRE2 is available here: https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/ Many large projects that use PCRE have made the switch now (e.g. git, php); it does involve some work, but we are now at the stage where PCRE should not be used, particularly if it might ever be exposed to untrusted input. This mass bug filing was discussed on debian-devel@ in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00176.html
