Control: tag -1 + confirmed
Hi Vincent,
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> In the grep 3.8 NEWS file:
>
> The egrep and fgrep commands, which have been deprecated since
> release 2.5.3 (2007), now warn that they are obsolescent and should
> be replaced by grep -E and grep -F.
Yeah, unfortunately. IMHO a very bad decision. This will cause as much
havoc as the removal/deprecation of which brought. Luckily that one
has been force-reverted by the TC.
> They occur in checkrestart.8 (man page), dglob, dgrep and dgrep.pod,
> dman and which-pkg-broke-build.
Thanks for the analysis.
Oh, and JFTR: degrep, dfgrep, dzegrep and dzfgrep will not be
deprecated and continue to work.
Regards, Axel
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