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

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for the bug report, just a quick note to indicate that upstream has
added support for PCRE2 in inspircd 4 (not yet released though). cfr
https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/issues/1928

If you want to fix this on InspIRCd v3 there is a backported module in inspircd-contrib for PCRE2 which can be installed with `./modulemanager install m_regex_pcre2`. This module uses the same internal name so it can be used on the same network as a server using m_regex_pcre.

Alternately, you can just ship a different regex backend instead. I'd personally recommend m_regex_stdlib as that requires no dependencies other than a C++11 compiler.

~ Sadie

As multiple distributions want to get rid of the old version of PCRE I have decided to import m_regex_pcre2 from inspircd-contrib. As of the next release (which will be happening on the 30th of this month) you'll be able to enable it the same way you enable m_regex_pcre.

Hope this helps,

~ Sadie

Hello,

Bug #1000104 in inspircd reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/inspircd/-/commit/667c01813db5c5a4c75819504c4ce58651321c5a
------------------------------------------------------------------------
New upstream release

* New upstream release
  + build libpcre2-dev, not libpcre3-dev (Closes: #1000104)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1000104

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
inspircd, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1000104@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@debian.org> (supplier of updated inspircd package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 16:05:01 +0100
Source: inspircd
Architecture: source
Version: 3.15.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@debian.org>
Changed-By: Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@debian.org>
Closes: 955479 1000104
Changes:
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