On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:11:59PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >On 2006-01-29 Bart Martens <bart.martens@advalvas.be> wrote: >>Package: libpcre3 >>Version: 6.4-1.1 >>Severity: wishlist > >>It would be nice to see libpcre.so* installed in /lib so that the -P >>option in grep can be enabled. See also bugs #238237, #237071, #338401, >>#338500, (...?). According to these webpages, redhat installs >>libpcre.so* in /lib since 2001, for the very same reason : >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41104 >>http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/pcre-4.5-3.i386.html >[...] > >(SID)ametzler@argenau:~$ apt-cache show grep libpcre3 | \ > egrep '^Pack|^Prio|^Ess' >Package: grep >Essential: yes >Priority: required >Package: libpcre3 >Priority: standard > >If standard grep linked against libpcre, libpcre's priority would nee >to be bumped and it would become quasi-essential. > >This would require at least discussion on debian-devel. > cu andreas Mark, The grep maintainers would like to enable the -P grep option. Please move libpcre.so* to /lib. Best Regards, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal
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