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authorJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>2020-01-15 22:02:32 +0000
committerJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>2020-01-15 22:02:32 +0000
commit087c97b7959acb1f9417b0b02be58709666476dc (patch)
tree9dca81e85bb4f433dfdf6ce4f3862ef4177841ae /doc/apt-get.8.xml
parenta9916c3faa2b8c6fa288599efec65868d050b0ef (diff)
parent21cb4a9e513ccb6f376fbcaf67957c4851cbbe32 (diff)
Merge branch 'pu/apt-regex-cli' into 'master'
apt(8): Disable regular expressions and fnmatch See merge request apt-team/apt!95
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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>