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Bug#992195: marked as done (Remove reference to undocumented APT feature)

Your message dated Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:57:10 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #992195,
regarding Remove reference to undocumented APT feature
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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal

Re: 5.1.2 "which takes advantage of the undocumented feature of APT that it supports regular expressions (inside /)."

Why are we encouraging people to use undocumented features ?

It surely just sets you up for a future fail when people try to use the trick but find the developers have changed it.

Its a dangerous game to play !

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Hi Laura,

On 15-08-2021 18:26, Laura Smith wrote:
> Re: 5.1.2 "which takes advantage of the undocumented feature of APT that it supports regular expressions (inside /)."
> 
> Why are we encouraging people to use undocumented features ?

Because the author of the tool recommended it.

> It surely just sets you up for a future fail when people try to use the trick but find the developers have changed it.

It's just that the developers are lazy and haven't documented it yet.
And it's only undocumented in the context of this usage, the regular
expression support elsewhere in APT *is* documented in apt_preferences(5).

Paul

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