Thanks, Joe. That was an interesting and clarifying link. This seems to be the crux of it:
"I don't think worrying about who's going to do something this trivial is our problem." Too trivial to assign! Ouch. I've grudgingly worked around this by compiling a version with -P support because I need it and it was the last barrier to moving away from Mandriva, but it remains a thorn in my side. -- grep -P is not supported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15051 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
