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Bug#253621: [ef]grep check



> What is the rationale behind this? Could you please explain that
> further?

Since nowadays egrep and fgrep are just shell scripts that run
'grep -E' or 'grep -F', running grep directly is always faster.

Furthermore, I believe that some people are working on POSIXifying base
for some embedded applications; grep -[EF] are mandated by POSIX,
[ef]grep are not.

This is not a major issue, but the only downside of adding it to lintian
would be potentially annoying people.



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