From 37ec12bf5b2a6a69084d9c7780c1b9be6295aec1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:26:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about libre2-dev (Closes: #1082901) --- debian/control | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 192b83b..507874a 100644 --- 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. -- 2.30.2