I understand the concerns, and I share them, but I don't think we should alone make the decision. Perhaps bring this up for wider discussion on the ubuntu-devel mailing list?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1636666 Title: [MIR] pcre2 Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in pcre2 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Availability ============ Synced with Debian. Built for all supported architectures. Rationale ========= Required by gnome-terminal 3.22+ and vte2.91 0.46+ Security ======== At least one open security issue, affecting Ubuntu 16.04 LTS https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/pkg/pcre2.html https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/pcre2 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=pcre Quality assurance ================= - Please subscribe Ubuntu Desktop Bugs or Ubuntu Foundation Bugs (like pcre3) to this package. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcre2 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=pcre2 Upstream tests are run during the build but there is no autopkgtest Does not have 3.0 (quilt) set Dependencies ============ Only build-dependencies are dpkg and debhelper. No other added dependencies. Standards compliance ==================== 3.9.6 Maintenance =========== - Actively developed upstream http://pcre.org/ Background information ====================== As the package description states, the older version of this library is confusingly named pcre3 in Debian/Ubuntu. pcre3 is already in Ubuntu main. Other Info ========== In the original release of pcre2 in Jan 2015, the author says this is not just a drastic update to the original pcre but a "new project". He felt free to change names and options. https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20150105.162835.0666407a.en.html pcre3 has gotten some bugfix releases since then (from 8.36 to 8.40 released Jan 2017) Some discussion of how it's different: http://www.regular-expressions.info/pcre2.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1636666/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
