Comment 0 for bug 1636666

Availability
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Synced with Debian. Built for all supported architectures.

Rationale
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Required by gnome-terminal 3.22+ and vte2.91 0.46+

Security
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At least one open security issue, affecting Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/pkg/pcre2.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/pcre2
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=pcre

Quality assurance
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- Please subscribe Ubuntu Desktop Bugs to this package.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcre2
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=pcre2

Upstream tests are run during the build but there is no autopkgtest

Does not have 3.0 (quilt) set

Dependencies
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Only build-dependencies are dpkg and debhelper. No other added dependencies.

Standards compliance
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3.9.6

Maintenance
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- Actively developed upstream
http://pcre.org/

Background information
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As the package description states, the older version of this library is confusingly named pcre3 in Debian/Ubuntu.