Bug#999598: dpkg-dev: Can we have binary package descriptions back for source uploads?

2021-11-13 Thread Holger Levsen
hi, (leaving full context for debian-policy@l.d.o) On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 06:56:24AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.20.9 > > Dear dpkg-dev developers, > > One feature that is deeply missed, and which disappered when we moved to > source only uploads, is the

Bug#999600: dselect: use `grep -E` instead of `egrep`

2021-11-13 Thread Ville Skyttä
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.7ubuntu3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, `egrep` has been deprecated in GNU grep since 2007, and in current post 3.7 Git it has been made to emit obsolescence warnings: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=a9515624709865d480e3142fd959bccd1c9372d1 `g