PCRE (version 1) is obsolete, replaced by PCRE2

Richard W.M. Jones
2026-04-02T13:05:58Z

The optional netstring-pcre subpackage needs PCRE (version 1). This has been deprecated for a while, and some distros are dropping it. Fedora in our case.

This means we'll be dropping ocaml-pcre too: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2454289 (replacing it with ocaml-pcre2).

Do you have plans for adopting PCRE2?