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authorJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2020-01-15 22:01:54 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2020-01-15 22:19:17 +0100
commit21cb4a9e513ccb6f376fbcaf67957c4851cbbe32 (patch)
treed18cb6cf693d955e8d4b38300981e23938b9f995 /doc/apt-get.8.xml
parent5db3a38926aa820546c411dd9f49f57eea24cd9e (diff)
apt(8): Disable regular expressions and fnmatch
This is the first step. Next step will be to add warnings to apt-get and then remove support there as well.
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@@ -140,7 +140,10 @@
to all package names in the database. Any matches are then installed (or
removed). Note that matching is done by substring so 'lo.*' matches 'how-lo'
and 'lowest'. If this is undesired, anchor the regular expression
- with a '^' or '$' character, or create a more specific regular expression.</para></listitem>
+ with a '^' or '$' character, or create a more specific regular expression.</para>
+ <para>Fallback to regular expressions is deprecated in APT 2.0, has been removed in
+ &apt;, except for anchored expressions, and will be removed from &apt-get;
+ in a future version. Use &apt-patterns; instead.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>reinstall</option></term>