On 2006-01-29 Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: libpcre3 > Version: 6.4-1.1 > Severity: wishlist
> It would be nice to see libpcre.so* installed in /lib so that the -P > option in grep can be enabled. See also bugs #238237, #237071, #338401, > #338500, (...?). According to these webpages, redhat installs > libpcre.so* in /lib since 2001, for the very same reason : > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41104 > http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/3/i386/pcre-4.5-3.i386.html [...] (SID)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show grep libpcre3 | \ egrep '^Pack|^Prio|^Ess' Package: grep Essential: yes Priority: required Package: libpcre3 Priority: standard If standard grep linked against libpcre, libpcre's priority would nee to be bumped and it would become quasi-essential. This would require at least discussion on debian-devel. cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects, howsoever undertaken. (c) Jasper Ffforde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

