[pkg-php-pear] Bug#1071686: php-mockery: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

[Bastian Germann]

Package: php-mockery
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer,

Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE library
(i.e. libpcre3). 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 library is 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/

One of the patches already removes the composer dependency, so please
also drop it from debian/control.

This is an add-on to the mass bug filing that was discussed on debian-devel
in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00176.html