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and subject line Bug#1094807: Removed package(s) from unstable
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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.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2:8.39-15.1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package pcre3 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1094807
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org.
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Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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