package logcheck
severity 311216 important
tags 311216 = pending
thanks
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 14:28 -0400, John A. Martin wrote:
> >>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie L Penman-Smithson
> >>>>> "Re: Bug#311216: logcheck: mails "egrep: Invalid content of \{\}""
> >>>>> Mon, 30 May 2005 17:58:30 +0100
> >>
> >> egrep: Invalid content of \{\}
> >> `----
> Hmm... I have several boxen each doing the same with yesterday's
> upgrade. It looks like the problem occurs on boxen with mixed
> stable/unstable but not on Sid boxen.
<snip>
> It looks like maybe grep-2.4.2-3 gives the problem while
> grep-2.5.1.ds1-4 does not. That is not tested, just something that
> differs between the boxen showing the problem and one that doesn't. I
> didn't notice before because the Sid box doesn't normally do logcheck.
I've tested this and your hypothesis is correct. In woody grep requires
that { and } characters are escaped, grep 2.5.1 doesn't care whether
they're escaped or not.
Since this only affects those running a mix of stable and unstable I'm
downgrading it to important.
Thanks for helping to track this down!
-j
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