Source: pplatex Severity: serious Version: 1.0~beta2023.12.01.repack-1 User: matthew-pcre...@debian.org Usertags: obsolete-pcre3
Dear maintainer, Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3 library (i.e. Build-Depends 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, the pcre3 libraries are being removed from Debian. 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 is an add-on to the mass bug filing that was discussed at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00176.html
