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

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tintin++, 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 999940@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jozsef Nagy <runave214@gmail.com> (supplier of updated tintin++ package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:20:40 +0200
Source: tintin++
Architecture: source
Version: 2.02.20-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jozsef Nagy <runave214@gmail.com>
Changed-By: Jozsef Nagy <runave214@gmail.com>
Closes: 999940
Changes:
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