Dear Vasyl, Have you seen this RC bug yet? On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:49:04 +0000 Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> wrote: > Source: kodi > 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 Regards, Nicholas
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