Bug#81084: boot-floppies: busybox's grep fail's to parse a legal regular expression properly

To: 81084@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#81084: boot-floppies: busybox's grep fail's to parse a legal regular expression properly
From: Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:38:11 -0800
Message-id: <20010102123811.B11197@gecko23.dse.beckman.com>
Reply-to: Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org>, 81084@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <20010102194436.11920.qmail@osiris.sbih.dhs.org>; from jaqque@sbih.penguinpowered.com on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:44:36PM -0000
References: <20010102194436.11920.qmail@osiris.sbih.dhs.org>

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:44:36PM -0000, jaqque@sbih.penguinpowered.com wrote:
> certain RE's will fail to be matched. this is not an exhaustive list,
> and i was unable to find a test suite to test all sorts of RE's.

This problem appears to be fixed in the latest version of busybox,
0.48.  The version included with the boot-floppies should be
upgraded to this if they end up being used for woody.

Matt

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- Bug#81084: boot-floppies: busybox's grep fail's to parse a legal regular expression properly
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