Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:

>> Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
>> "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
>> you think it means.
>
> You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> shell patterns.
>
> Therefore tetex-bin and autoconf will need to be fixed instead to
> not use backslashes in [] expressions.

I read through the entire bug log for 240887 and couldn't figure
out what actual bug in Autoconf is being pointed out.  Can anyone
help me out?  I can't fix a bug if no one tells me what the bug
is.
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