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From: | Thomas Wolff |
Subject: | bug#60257: please fix warnings from egrep and fgrep |
Date: | Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:16:36 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.0 |
Second and particularly:
egrep and fgrep were not entirely portable even before POSIX deprecated them in 2001grep -E and grep -F were not portable either! There are legacy systems which had egrep and fgrep but did not have grep options -E and -F. So all this achieves is really to annoy thousands of people and to waste time of hundreds of package maintainers. Please have mercy with the community. Give us the comfort of not being bothered when using egrep and fgrep in the future, and if it is as a Christmas present.
Thanks Thomas
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