Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad
On Fri 01 Jul 2016 at 15:19:20 +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2016-07-01, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri 01 Jul 2016 at 13:56:22 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 11:42:58AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> >> > On 2016-07-01, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> > > GNU grep 2.20, Debian package grep 2.20-4.1 -- progress or regression?
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> > Must be progress. GNU grep 2.12 here.
> >
> > Bug #678652.
>
> He didn't write that.
No, you wrote it and I accidentally snipped a line when replying. But
now we know why the manual for grep 2.20-4.1 says something different
for -r/-R from the one for grep 2.12. An assessment will have to be
made whether the knowlege gained outweighs the information not present.
> > And just to get back vaguely to the topic. Why search the whole of /etc
> > when apt and aptitude have their config files in /etc/apt?
>
> You'll have to ask Heinrich.
Heinrich? I mailed the list, not Henrique de Moraes Holschuh. You too
are welcome to offer an opinion.
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