Package: libglib2.0-dev Version: 2.66.6-1 Severity: normal I just did an "apt-get build-dep linux" and noticed that both old (pcre3) as new (pcre2) PCRE libs got installed. Quering aptitude as to why, pointed both towards libglib2.0-dev. That seems silly/weird to me, hence this bug report.
$ aptitude why libpcre2-16-0 i libglib2.0-dev Depends libselinux1-dev i A libselinux1-dev Depends libpcre2-dev i A libpcre2-dev Depends libpcre2-16-0 (= 10.36-2) $ aptitude why libpcre16-3 i libglib2.0-dev Depends libpcre3-dev (>= 1:8.31) i A libpcre3-dev Depends libpcre16-3 (= 2:8.39-13) -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libglib2.0-dev depends on: ii libffi-dev 3.3-5 ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.6-1 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.66.6-1 ii libglib2.0-dev-bin 2.66.6-1 ii libmount-dev 2.36.1-7 ii libpcre3-dev 2:8.39-13 ii libselinux1-dev 3.1-2+b2 ii pkg-config 0.29.2-1 ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2 libglib2.0-dev recommends no packages. Versions of packages libglib2.0-dev suggests: pn libgirepository1.0-dev <none> pn libglib2.0-doc <none> -- no debconf information