Package: pcregrep Severity: wishlist Now that Debian ships GNU grep with -P enabled, is it time to remove pcregrep, or at least slap a bit fat notice on it saying “you’re probably better off using grep -P”?
It’s unclear to me that pcregrep is a genuinely useful alternative, as as far as I can see it just tries to be like a standard grep but with PCRE regexs, hence I don’t think this is squashing choice or insisting on One True Grep, but reducing confusion and effort. (I don’t know what upstream’s view would be; it might be that pcregrep is still shipped purely for compatibility reasons, or for use on systems that don’t have GNU grep.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pcregrep depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpcre3 7.6-2.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi pcregrep recommends no packages. pcregrep suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
