Add note about libre2-dev (Closes: #1082901)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 192b83b82eea71d3e1317a2c02f71259c0c8214a..507874a1f7737c7823d1839b7d3212293af866b4 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ Description: New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library - development files
  should use this library in preference to the older library,
  confusingly called pcre3 in Debian.
  .
+ Unlike the previous version of PCRE, there is no C++ library included
+ with PCRE2. Users who wish to avoid porting their C++ code to use the
+ PCRE2 C API might want to consider the libre2-dev package in Debian
+ which attempts to provide a similar C++ API to that provided by
+ libpcrecpp in previous versions of PCRE.
+ .
  This package contains the development files, including headers,
  static libraries, and documentation.