Just throwing my hat in the ring as absolutely no one of influence: I
think reverting functionality that is understood to be in a particular
version of a package is inviting breakage.

If VTE 0.48.x is understood to have PCRE2 support, as announced by the
VTE developers, then applications that depend on it are free to assume
they can use that functionality. If Ubuntu patches that out, then you
are going to break code that makes such an assumption. What's going on
with Tilix is a good example of this.

The best option here is #1, to add PCRE2 into main. Based on my reading
of #1636666, it really isn't that big a deal, but if the maintainers are
dead set against it, then do #2 leave gnome terminal and VTE at their
lower version numbers until there is more impetus to switch. #3 is
objectively the wrong decision.

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