Reporter (Helmut Grohne) did suggest could use libc6-dev|libc-dev but
I think the simpler version is fine.
Section: libdevel
Architecture: any
Multi-Arch: same
-Depends: libc6-dev, libpcre3 (= ${binary:Version}), libpcre16-3 (= ${binary:Version}), libpcre32-3 (= ${binary:Version}), libpcrecpp0v5 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: libc-dev, libpcre3 (= ${binary:Version}), libpcre16-3 (= ${binary:Version}), libpcre32-3 (= ${binary:Version}), libpcrecpp0v5 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
Description: Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - development files
This is a library of functions to support regular expressions whose syntax
and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language.