From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.130]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49A58384D147 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:25:51 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 49A58384D147 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=cygwin.com Received: from calimero.vinschen.de ([24.134.7.25]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue012 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MMH2M-1oX7LY2yQQ-00JLiJ; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:25:46 +0200 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1DCDCA807CD; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:25:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:25:45 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Brian Inglis Cc: Cygwin Applications Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: grep 3.8 - promotion to current stable Message-ID: Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Brian Inglis , Cygwin Applications References: <021f494d-dac8-12b2-b49d-7bf6d56068a4@SystematicSw.ab.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <021f494d-dac8-12b2-b49d-7bf6d56068a4@SystematicSw.ab.ca> X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:EploNYmMgjhce0xFQmgmURHAjYVOHCmsVynqF752YdEVuXBDpkW SPkf5RMGCaQeu3zaZzrHvbNr0yESRuEFSgiaCTMknN7Gpgwsgvqf3tMXd3N9K6LilUVNs3c F7aU1za1TW3MlcmF6qswz099c29Qfwdq3j8ZgSbUpsOse2BXdc5TUqlKJt/sruCRuiQOhQB h2KiC8HZUMeeiSnsCLpPQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:XoyVGqZQ22I=:FGjnhZRIFKbYJJbx/BF4L1 VUEmZnv8S+PkAB8sfksWPVQORFxhDqfvN/QDmwprKkx/xt+EwBXhOCmzAp2cVU4DDAehqQp0B AMLLthlYTrjiq5EW7/0UCXZyA6RZRinMK7E6i9yng9MxC8CDYI8tXqhYJlAzJOb+M2rYxXd35 Q1xB3nGAaij5kAhvO97rb6ER9sqHicDktExsjwu0UvtojS2Vi6TAEpteQSDMcJviPxcr+89Al Yp8D4Nja2li2MBi5R9M/dVX1mzdHngcJjrNWZr5Iz+juAxKaJ2xeXDdEIeeZldZW63TcRQbCl MgHGjPRCVZy8Aah4u392jk/BoqoYapq/2pKnnrYLghKX3gaEEWk0oQs5/alY05zDiQejamOQE GhA+q6qubCca/783voVZMTrd9JvKG2caiXPgvyQ5D84m7GWEqZidm0FqrRn0NIo9LRM8lKBRZ z5qQGfDipt988YS+ohfRxpYH9h50lSdFxWj9KMHwz5d3TQzLNE+bH1hRZYfuLwy6/f2c0LsVr jSaCRs2KlsseX2YA9SoKATxZgZ6l4AFDSYAWeB/HATO/jTohFb501+Zulks5UxQpTtbzPOf0h OCv7eCEBj8T75JaK3ExXksieL5bLB8BRGByMAzK5JOBZhsDOD3nBghFG/I3+kk3ps6q7wLr3Z +GqcpoNQ6fkeNv9OPk5SnKfif7srHjIZK6gC4NDlo6iNsMmYBmDmpwJb0BQXv8HpCwxqpRDxW 2YqNG4gmPYXYDRCdCbyHSFx+82mF8I9ty8iMoyF+wQacyxG+XhrlMGwdy582RTYLV6FU4BuKi sCofmaKQWro3lpHxUG03BF5XRDsMQ== X-Spam-Status: No, score=-95.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_DMARC_NONE,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_FAIL,SPF_HELO_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Hi Brian, On Sep 29 12:55, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, [Please Reply All as ISP blocking Cygwin lists] > [...] > > /usr/share/doc/grep/ChangeLog > > https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=log;h=refs/tags/v3.8 > > > > The change note below states that egrep and fgrep are deprecated > > obsolescent commands, will be dropped in future, and from this release > > until then, every use will show a stderr warning message, reminding you > > how to change your commands and scripts: > > > > $ egrep ... > > egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E > > ... > > $ fgrep ... > > fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F > > ... Please do everyone a favor and remove those warnings. egrep and fgrep are used abundantly in existing scripts and the user often has no choice or no knowledge how to fix this. If this is an upstream change, it's a bad one, breaking backward compatibility. Please fix this at least for our distro. Thanks, Corinna