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and subject line Bug#1094807: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #498344,
regarding pcregrep: option to filter non-printable characters from contents
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Package: pcregrep
Version: 7.6-2.1
Severity: wishlist
pcregrep should have an option to filter non-printable characters
from the contents (the file contents, but also the filename when
it is printed) before coloring. The values could be "never",
"always" and "auto", like with --color.
Such an option would be useful because:
1. pcregrep does not have a --binary-files option like grep, but even
with such an option, it is a heuristic only; and the user may want
to have more information on binary files anyway.
2. It is not even possible to write a wrapper script when coloring is
used, because after coloring, it is not possible (or at least very
difficult) to do the difference between escape sequences from
pcregrep and those from the original contents.
Such non-printable characters could be either replaced by some
locale-specific replacement character or transcoded.
Filtering could be the default when the output is connected to a
terminal.
Note: I also have reported a bug against grep:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498336
Some utilities (ls, find) already have such a feature.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.3-20080822 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages pcregrep depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpcre3 7.6-2.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
pcregrep recommends no packages.
pcregrep suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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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.
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Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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