GNU bug report logs - #22245
[lamby@debian.org: Bug#809007: diffutils: FTBFS: FAIL: test-update-copyright.sh]

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila <at> unex.es>

Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 18:09:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 22245 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Santiago Vila <sanvila <at> unex.es>, 22245 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: lamby <at> debian.org, 809007 <at> bugs.debian.org, 809007-forwarded <at> bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#22245: [lamby <at> debian.org: Bug#809007:
 diffutils: FTBFS: FAIL: test-update-copyright.sh]
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:15:43 -0800

Santiago Vila wrote:
> I find a little bit odd that only the left brace is escaped in
> the git commit above. Sure, it will remove the warning about the
> left brace, but it looks a little bit inconsistent.

It depends on which sort of consistency one wants. I mildly prefer omitting 
backslashes when not needed, as this helps avoid usages like:

grep '\[.*\]' *.c

which has undefined behavior due to the '\]'. Admittedly that's a POSIX regular 
expression, not Perl.
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