From 21cb4a9e513ccb6f376fbcaf67957c4851cbbe32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Andres Klode Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:01:54 +0100 Subject: 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. --- doc/apt-get.8.xml | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/apt-get.8.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.xml b/doc/apt-get.8.xml index ab6074802..2cec32e9a 100644 --- a/doc/apt-get.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-get.8.xml @@ -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 '$' character, or create a more specific regular expression. + with a '^' or '$' character, or create a more specific regular expression. + 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. -- cgit v1.2.3