Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/expr In the following transcript, the second invocation of expr should exit successfully.
13:22 <\amethyst> hm, yeah, GNU expr is buggy 13:22 <\amethyst> # expr fooar : 'foob*ar'; echo $? 13:22 <evalbot> \amethyst: 5 13:22 <evalbot> \amethyst: 0 13:22 <\amethyst> # expr fooar : 'foo\(b\)*ar'; echo $? 13:22 <evalbot> \amethyst: 13:22 <evalbot> \amethyst: 1 13:23 <\amethyst> # expr foobar : 'foo\(b\)*ar'; echo $? 13:23 <evalbot> \amethyst: b 13:23 <evalbot> \amethyst: 0 -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org