Pcretest seems to be gone from libpcre3 package

Question

pcretest in 11.04 seems to be missing from libpcre packages and I can't seem to find where it went off to. I kind of love using it to test regular expressions. Where did it go?

Answer 1

It was dropped in version 8.12-3ubuntu1:

pcre3 (8.12-3ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * FFe LP: #733501
  * Drop pcretest from the libpcre3 package, to allow for correct
    coinstallability.
  * Build for multiarch, pre-depending on multiarch-support.

 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:05:43 -0700

The relevant commit can be found here.

The file is still available in Maverick's package.

Other than using older builds (discouraged) or building it from source, I suggest you to fill a bug against the pcre3 source package.