Package: grep Version: 3.8-1 Severity: normal Hi,
I see egrep and fgrep have started throwing deprecation warnings: $ egrep egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E I understand that they have been dubbed deprecated for quite a while: (manpage of an older grep version) In addition, the variant programs egrep, fgrep and rgrep are the same as grep -E, grep -F, and grep -r, respectively. These variants are deprecated, but are provided for backward compatibility. This deprecation will need a LOT of effort to weed out in probably 1000s of packages, while in practise we'll likely never be able to really remove them from the package since users will expect egrep and fgrep to be present on any normal unix system, both for interactive use and to be able to execute 3rd party sh scripts. I suggest removing the deprecation notices, and keep egrep and fgrep around indefinitely. (On a side node, the deprecation notice quoted above also mentions "rgrep", which is no longer mentioned in the manpage, but it's still there in the package, not throwing a deprecation warning.) Christoph
