On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 01:06:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 18, Matthew Vernon <matt...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Many large projects that use PCRE have made the switch now (e.g. git, > > php); it does involve some work, but we are now at the stage where > > PCRE3 should not be used, particularly if it might ever be exposed to > > untrusted input. > For the records: I would love to switch, but it is not totally obvious > to me by looking at the configure script that tin supports pcre2.
it does not, switching to pcre2 is on the TODO list for several years now but so far no one has touched the corresponding code and I doubt this will happen in the near future with hardly any developpers left.
