Comment 10 for bug 1636666

"Other distros do it" isn't sufficient rationale, by itself, to support putting pcre2 in main. We already ship it, the question is whether it should be in main, meaning whether Canonical will be responsible for support, providing security updates, etc.

To mirror what doko mentioned earlier, what is needed to demote pcre3? Can we start (even a long-running) transition? (So there should be a tracker setup for that).

There seems to be new security issues too.

I don't have a preference on what version of pcre to use, there should just be a reasonable analysis of how far we are to being able to just one pcre, what the steps needed to get there, possibly bugs open or a transition tracker to follow progress, and whether we can more easily port what seems to require pcre2 now back to pcre3 in order to facilitate maintenance. Should we / can we invest time and effort in porting things from pcre3 to pcre2?