Today, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> This is trivial, but maybe it will save someone else the bother. I'm
> running it from a nightly cron job.
Nice script, but I think that:
if ($item=~/$string/) {
should better be written as (conditionally, via a command-line option?):
if ($item=~/*\s$string\s/) {
lest "grep-excuses ed" (or any package name that is a substring of any
other package name) gets messy...
regards,
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Andreas Fuchs, <asf@acm.org>, <d96001@htlwrn.ac.at>, antifuchs
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