Bug 2140197

Summary: xdg-open raises avoidable warning regarding grep-3.8 [bug 2123935]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Pokorný [poki] <fedora>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 37CC: ekohlvan, jks, rdieter, rjeffman, sergio
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Description Jan Pokorný [poki] 2022-11-04 19:08:29 UTC 
Hi, just noticed this:

$ xdg-open https://fedoraproject.org
> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E

(more informative demo with a pun intended for a little bit of fun:
$ egrep egrep $(which xdg-open)
> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
>             || ! echo "$1" | egrep -q '^[[:alpha:]][[:alpha:][:digit:]+\.\-]*:'; then
)

$ rpm -qf $(which grep xdg-open)
grep-3.8-1.fc38.x86_64
xdg-utils-1.1.3-12.fc37.noarch

See also the announcement
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00001.html:

>   The egrep and fgrep commands, which have been deprecated since
>   release 2.5.3 (2007), now warn that they are obsolescent and should
>   be replaced by grep -E and grep -F.

Also, for the sake of a more complete picture, note it looks like
Debian actually decided to revert the upstream change of raising those
compatibility warnings:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019335

No particular opinion here, just following what's currently in Fedora
and assuming that Fedora is more prudent regarding the divergence
from upstream, which would favour adapting xdg-utils to this new
constrain than the other way around.

No upstream bug seems to exist for xdg-utils at this time.
Comment 1 Sergio Basto 2023-02-18 19:13:52 UTC 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/214
Comment 2 Jouni Seppänen 2023-04-24 10:52:34 UTC 
*** Bug 2189126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden 2023-07-19 14:54:09 UTC 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/66 is not merge yet, but it would be good to apply this downstream until it's resolved upstream. Just to avoid the warning all the time.
Comment 4 Rafael Jeffman 2023-07-25 19:34:47 UTC 
To fix this issue, I'm proposing https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xdg-utils/pull-request/2
Comment 5 Sergio Basto 2023-09-07 23:16:15 UTC 
This was already fixed upstream ( hopefully )  

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/commit/6519ca76246c3c1ad941d3117d4e3a2d4a1dc599
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2023-09-08 00:17:58 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-b76ca33423 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 39. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-b76ca33423
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2023-09-08 00:18:21 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-0d30eafc36 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-0d30eafc36
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2023-09-08 00:18:38 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-a39ab76b73 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 37. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a39ab76b73
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2023-09-09 01:50:03 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-0d30eafc36 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-0d30eafc36`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-0d30eafc36

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2023-09-09 01:52:12 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-b76ca33423 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-b76ca33423`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-b76ca33423

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2023-09-09 02:34:11 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-a39ab76b73 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-a39ab76b73`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a39ab76b73

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2023-09-10 01:20:20 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-0d30eafc36 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2023-09-24 00:16:18 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-b76ca33423 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2023-09-24 03:11:35 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-a39ab76b73 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.