sed uses libc6's regex

To: 155751-submitter@bugs.debian.org
Cc: libc6@packages.debian.org
Subject: sed uses libc6's regex
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:07:48 +1000
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020824130748.GA31344@gondor.apana.org.au>

severity 155751 wishlist
merge 65458 155751
reassign 65458 libc6
quit

sed uses the regex implementation from libc6, which needs to be
replaced withh a saner version from gawk, grep, or even better
mawk + support for POSIX character classes.
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