diff --git a/gi-find-deps.sh b/gi-find-deps.sh
index 2916a70..891b784 100644
--- a/gi-find-deps.sh
+++ b/gi-find-deps.sh
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ function javascript_requires {
 		print_req_prov
 	done
 	# Remember files which contain a pkg.require() call
-	if pcregrep -M "pkg.require\\(([^;])*" $1 > /dev/null; then
+	if pcre2grep -M "pkg.require\\(([^;])*" $1 > /dev/null; then
 		# the file contains a pkg.require(..) list... let's remember th is file for the in-depth scanner
 		if [ -n "$jspkg" ]; then
 			jspkg=$1:${jspkg}
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ function javascript_requires {
 		fi
 	fi
 	# remember files which contain exlucde filters used against pkg.require()
-	if pcregrep -M "const RECOGNIZED_MODULE_NAMES =([^;])*" $1 > /dev/null; then
+	if pcre2grep -M "const RECOGNIZED_MODULE_NAMES =([^;])*" $1 > /dev/null; then
 		# the file contains RECOGNIZED_MODULE_NAMES list. We remember the file name for the follow up filtering
 		if [ -n "$jspkgfilt" ]; then
 			jspkgfilt=$1:${jspkgfilt}
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ function javascript_requires {
 function javascript_pkg_filter {
 # For now this is a dummy function based on gnome-weather information
 #for file in $jspkgfilt; do
-#	FILTER=($(pcregrep -M "const RECOGNIZED_MODULE_NAMES =([^;])*" $file | grep -o "'.*'" | sed "s:'::g"))
+#	FILTER=($(pcre2grep -M "const RECOGNIZED_MODULE_NAMES =([^;])*" $file | grep -o "'.*'" | sed "s:'::g"))
 #done
   FILTER=('Lang' 'Mainloop' 'Signals' 'System' 'Params')
 }
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ oldIFS=$IFS
 IFS=:
 for file in "$jspkg"; do
 	IFS=$'\n'
-	PKGS=$(pcregrep -M "pkg.require\\(([^;])*" $file | grep -o "'.*': '.*'")
+	PKGS=$(pcre2grep -M "pkg.require\\(([^;])*" $file | grep -o "'.*': '.*'")
 	for pkg in $PKGS; do
 		split_name_version2 $pkg
 		found=0
diff --git a/gobject-introspection.changes b/gobject-introspection.changes
index a008d20..3d108ba 100644
--- a/gobject-introspection.changes
+++ b/gobject-introspection.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 22 17:02:33 UTC 2022 - Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.com>
+
+- Switch to pcre2grep (pcre is dead upstream)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Sep 18 07:04:31 UTC 2022 - Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/gobject-introspection.spec b/gobject-introspection.spec
index 2416c8b..7ce02aa 100644
--- a/gobject-introspection.spec
+++ b/gobject-introspection.spec
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libffi) >= 3.0.0
 Requires:       file
 Requires:       libgirepository-1_0-1 = %{version}
 # gi-find-deps uses the enhanced grep variant in order to do multi-line matching (for pkg.requires(..))
-Requires:       pcre-tools
+Requires:       pcre2-tools
 Requires:       python3-xml
 Requires:       python(abi) = %{python3_version}