Your message dated Tue, 31 May 2011 18:17:13 +0000
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Bug#587930: fixed in grep 2.8-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #587930,
regarding Man page references acronyms which are not repeated later
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
587930: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587930
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: grep
Version: 2.6.3-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
In the man page for grep, the description of the -E option reads:
-E, --extended-regexp
Interpret PATTERN as an extended regular expression
(ERE, see below).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
When I read this, it suggested to me that by searching for "ERE", I would go
straight to the section below that discussed them. However, the acronym is
not repeated again, so this fails. The same goes for "BRE".
My suggestion (patch attached) would be to add the acronyms again at the
beginning of the REGULAR EXPRESSIONS section, to make jumping to that
section in a pager much easier. I also added the PCRE acronym to the
option/description Perl-compatible REs, just for completeness.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grep depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.7.2 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
grep recommends no packages.
Versions of packages grep suggests:
ii libpcre3 7.8-3 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
-- no debconf information
--
Chris Butler <[email protected]>
GnuPG Key ID: 4096R/49E3ACD3
--- a/doc/grep.in.1
+++ b/doc/grep.in.1
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
.BR \-P ", " \-\^\-perl\-regexp
Interpret
.I PATTERN
-as a Perl regular expression.
+as a Perl regular expression (PCRE, see below).
This is highly experimental and
.B "grep \-P"
may warn of unimplemented features.
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@
.PP
.B grep
understands three different versions of regular expression syntax:
-\*(lqbasic,\*(rq \*(lqextended\*(rq and \*(lqperl.\*(rq In
+\*(lqbasic\*(rq (BRE), \*(lqextended\*(rq (ERE) and \*(lqperl\*(rq (PRCE). In
.RB "\s-1GNU\s0\ " grep ,
there is no difference in available functionality between basic and
extended syntaxes.
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: grep
Source-Version: 2.8-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grep, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
grep_2.8-2.debian.tar.gz
to main/g/grep/grep_2.8-2.debian.tar.gz
grep_2.8-2.dsc
to main/g/grep/grep_2.8-2.dsc
grep_2.8-2_i386.deb
to main/g/grep/grep_2.8-2_i386.deb
grep_2.8.orig.tar.gz
to main/g/grep/grep_2.8.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Santiago Ruano Rincón <[email protected]> (supplier of updated grep package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:05:48 +0200
Source: grep
Binary: grep
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.8-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Santiago Ruano Rincón <[email protected]>
Description:
grep - GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
Closes: 587930
Changes:
grep (2.8-2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Applying patch to improve reference acronyms in man page. Thanks to
Chris Butler. (Closes: #587930)
* Bump Standars-Version to 3.9.2. No changes needed
Checksums-Sha1:
20d08c41a44693842e836e9cb15d98007c1470dd 1216 grep_2.8-2.dsc
097bfcbaba8098528d41c75ff4d85384a1006cc8 1757034 grep_2.8.orig.tar.gz
1d616c7e6d36f590b20b2f9e13ad024390ee44ee 13253 grep_2.8-2.debian.tar.gz
7d315fbf4d62995def97388c5f0c7bd47ccdd47e 375036 grep_2.8-2_i386.deb
Checksums-Sha256:
21c0733fedc8283ceda25f7daed06710d1f6f54e2d9f4c65b8ec6622a6a0db9d 1216
grep_2.8-2.dsc
da48d0e20bceaacc7d05bfcbccb34c3dee0c50bd7e80de5222fd5e319809af27 1757034
grep_2.8.orig.tar.gz
72fb70edeaa95c7648f90bf464675781198b784441c0921f8b5f5b9f7f301a79 13253
grep_2.8-2.debian.tar.gz
3e1e527f3caded911445713e93df0c02210f95a77b09beb434efcc9dc5906cda 375036
grep_2.8-2_i386.deb
Files:
9d6d54ffb5fab7ca52f9b1219f366104 1216 utils required grep_2.8-2.dsc
cb2dfc502c5afc7a4a6e5f6cefd6850e 1757034 utils required grep_2.8.orig.tar.gz
36e86605c58fb30740cdcad0605a1205 13253 utils required grep_2.8-2.debian.tar.gz
d59508565744c50365541d2d761b8662 375036 utils required grep_2.8-2_i386.deb
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAk3lLJcACgkQQUuEI2/szeBakgCdGNp13kS/FdP+nAJ25IjryrGY
YW4AoIqg2N7zRquKTWbbMqB2AKrujPib
=USvU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--- End Message ---
