Bug#748781: pcre3: Please provide a pcre16 (UTF8) enabled binary

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Source: pcre3
Version: 1:8.31-5
Severity: wishlist

Hi Mark! We are trying to use libpcre in Qt5, but we need pcr16 support, as can
be seen in this snippet of Qt5's qtbase package:

make[2]: Entering directory '/«BUILDDIR»/qtbase-opensource-src-5.3.0+dfsg/config.tests/unix/pcre'
g++ -c -m64 -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -fPIE  -I../../../mkspecs/linux-g++-64 -I. -o pcre.o pcre.cpp
g++ -m64 -Wl,-O1 -o pcre pcre.o   -lpcre16
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpcre16
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [pcre] Error 1
Makefile:102: recipe for target 'pcre' failed
make[2]: Leaving directory '/«BUILDDIR»/qtbase-opensource-src-5.3.0+dfsg/config.tests/unix/pcre'
PCRE disabled.

I'm being told by a team mate that this needs to be in a separate binary
package.

Thanks in advance, Lisandro.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash