[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#999918: zsh: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

[Daniel Shahaf]

Control: tags -1 upstream

Good morning Matthew,

Matthew Vernon wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:49:09 +0000:
> 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/

Is there a pcre1→pcre2 upgrade guide for library consumers?  I guess
there's more to the upgrade than s/pcre_foo/pcre2_foo/g in our code, or
they wouldn't have bumped the major version number.

Is there a summary of the regex syntax differences between pcre1 and
pcre2?

I couldn't find either of these anywhere.

Cheers,

Daniel