Package: grep Version: 2.22-1 Severity: important --exclude no longer works in some cases:
$ cd /usr/share/doc/grep $ grep e --exclude README README is OK, but not: $ grep e --exclude README /usr/share/doc/grep/README Copyright (C) 1992, 1997-2002, 2004-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. [...] This breaks at least one of my scripts, where --exclude is used to exclude filenames generated with globbing. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages grep depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.3 ii install-info 6.0.0.dfsg.1-3+b1 ii libc6 2.21-4 ii libpcre3 2:8.35-8 grep recommends no packages. grep suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
