On 10/22/2015 10:47 AM, Matthew Vernon wrote:
The natural thing to call the PCRE2 packages is pcre2, but that's going to lead to confusion - ISTM that something that makes it clear that PCRE2 is newer than PCRE is desirable. And, obviously, PCRE & PCRE2 need to be co-installable.
There are already libpcre16-3 and libpcre32-3 packages. That doesn't seem to have lead to confusion. Quite possibly because libpcre* is normally installed by apt automatically as a dependency, so the vast majority of users don't need to think about the package name.
Seems like the developers who are going to install -dev package could be helped by something in the short & long description. E.g., something as simple as putting "Old" and "New" in front of the short description, and then explaining in the long description.
And the pcregrep package doesn't have a 3 in it currently, so it's not a problem.