Package: visual-regexp Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal The description tag should at least mention which type of regex this supports.
: BRE (Basic Regular Expressions), ERE (Extended Regular Expressions) or PCregex If you press the help button you get: expected integer but got "bold" expected integer but got "bold" (processing "-font" option) invoked from within ".help.text.t tag configure bold -font "[.help.text.t cget -font] bold"" (procedure "regexp::help" line 26) invoked from within "regexp::help" invoked from within ".#menubar.#menubar#help invoke active" ("uplevel" body line 1) invoked from within "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke active]" (procedure "tk::MenuInvoke" line 50) invoked from within "tk::MenuInvoke .#menubar.#menubar#help 1" (command bound to event) So help appears broken... missing man page ... no README - no trail of bread-crumbs to http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/regexp/ A help file that told which type and displayed this: http://gmckinney.info/resources/regex.pdf Would do wonders for this useful package.. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, 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 visual-regexp depends on: ii tcl-vfs [tclvfs] 1.3-20080503-4 ii tk8.5 8.5.17-1 visual-regexp recommends no packages. visual-regexp suggests no packages. -- no debconf information