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| author | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-01-15 22:01:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-01-15 22:19:17 +0100 |
| commit | 21cb4a9e513ccb6f376fbcaf67957c4851cbbe32 (patch) | |
| tree | d18cb6cf693d955e8d4b38300981e23938b9f995 /doc/apt-get.8.xml | |
| parent | 5db3a38926aa820546c411dd9f49f57eea24cd9e (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.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-get.8.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-get.8.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
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 '$' character, or create a more specific regular expression.</para></listitem> + with a '^' or '$' 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> |