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libpcre3-dev is not present on Debian 13; it uses libpcre2 #315

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Hello.

I'm trying to build on Debian 13.

$ ./configure
...
checking for libcrypto... yes
checking for library containing clock_gettime... none required
checking for pcre_compile in -lpcre... no
configure: error: pcre is required; try installing libpcre3-dev.
$ sudo apt install libpcre3-dev
Package libpcre3-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Error: Package 'libpcre3-dev' has no installation candidate

Debian 13 has switched from libpcre3 to libpcre2 (the latter is newer, despite the number).
There is no libpcre3-dev package in Debian 13 (released this August).
Please consider switching to libpcre2.
Thank you!

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