[Bug 1792544] Re: demotion of pcre3 in favor of pcre2

[Thomas Ward]

NGINX has technically said this is won't fix:

>From a response to my inquiry: http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-
devel/2018-September/011448.html

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Hello!

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 08:12:20AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Downstream in Ubuntu, it has been proposed to demote pcre3 and 
> use pcre2 instead as it is newer.
> https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/720 shows it was marked 4 
> years ago that NGINX does not support pcre2.  Are there any 
> plans to use pcre2 instead of pcre3?

There are no immediate plans.

When we last checked, there were no problems with PCRE, but PCRE2 
wasn't available in most distributions we support, making the 
switch mostly meaningless.

Also, it looks like PCRE2 is still not supported even by Exim, 
which is the parent project of PCRE and PCRE2:

https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1878

As such, adding PCRE2 support to nginx looks premature.

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Title:
  demotion of pcre3 in favor of pcre2

Status in aide package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in apache2 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in apr-util package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in clamav package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in exim4 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in freeradius package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in git package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in grep package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in haproxy package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in libpam-mount package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in libselinux package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in nginx package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in nmap package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in pcre3 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in php7.2 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in postfix package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in python-pyscss package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in quagga package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in rasqal package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in slang2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in sssd package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in wget package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in zsh package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  demotion of pcre3 in favor of pcre2. These packages need analysis what
  needs to be done for the demotion of pcre3:

  Packages which are ready to build with pcre2 should be marked as
  'Triaged', packages which are not ready should be marked as
  'Incomplete'.

  aide
  apache2
  apr-util
  clamav
  exim4
  freeradius
  git
  glib2.0
  grep
  haproxy
  libpam-mount
  libselinux
  nginx
  nmap
  php7.2
  postfix
  python-pyscss
  quagga
  rasqal
  slang2
  sssd
  wget
  zsh

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  For clarification: pcre2 is actually newer than pcre3.  pcre3 is just
  poorly named (according to jbicha).

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