I think that packages are simply not removed from SLES, but we can try.

There is currently 524 packages (including zsh) in SLES that build against pcre. Let's track only single task for this (marked zsh / #92 as dupe of this one).

I think that packages are simply not removed from SLES, but we can try.

I get the point. Maybe we can leave PCRE for historical issues, however, it would be great to have the packages to built against newer library instead.

What we can do is to target it for ALP, but in fact this is all factory work. ALP will only consume what's already in factory. So the dependency chain has to be changed there first.

Let's revisit this in some time. Seems like there is ongoing discussion with PM and Release management.

So Security team wants to start rebuilding software in 15.5, but we most likely can't get rid of it fully. Remaining work should happen in factory/alp.

this will be ongoing effort happening in next service packs. We won't get able to fully get rid of it. There are some critical components such as grub which depend on this.

Architech suggested to reject this for code-stream 15. As we do not take "family tent" sized cards in the non-feature release.

Coolo shared list done by other distros:
Fedora also got an impressive list: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PcreDeprecation
And debian: https://ben.jrtc27.com/html/pcre3-to-pcre2.html