Bug#1000114: apache2: depends on obsolete pcre3 library
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Le 18/11/2021 à 12:49, Matthew Vernon a écrit :
> Source: apache2
> Severity: important
> User: matthew-pcredep@debian.org
> Usertags: obsolete-pcre3
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] 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, preferably in
> time for the release of Bookworm.
>
> 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
> PCRE3 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
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthew [0] Historical reasons mean that old PCRE is packaged as
> pcre3 in Debian
Sadly pcre2 does not provide /usr/bin/pcre-config, I'm unable to do this
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