Bug#907652: grep: please use libpcre2 instead of pcre3

[Andres Salomon]

Upstream patches were proposed in 
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=47264 , and they've been 
merged upstream. The next upstream grep release, whenever that is, 
should allow this debian bug to be closed.

Bug#907652: grep: please use libpcre2 instead of pcre3

[Simon McVittie]

Package: grep
Version: 3.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

grep currently uses libpcre.so.3 (pcre3) for its -P option. That library
is deprecated in favour of libpcre2-8.so.0 (and its 16-bit equivalent, but
I think the 8-bit flavour is the one you'd want); please consider switching
to that one.

Note that the API and ABI are not necessarily the same: pcre2 is a
separate parallel-installable library, like the difference between GTK+ 2
and GTK+ 3, or Qt 4 and Qt 5.

smcv