#762765 procmail: does not support named character classes (but manpage implies it does)

Package:
procmail
Source:
procmail
Description:
Versatile e-mail processor
Submitter:
Frédéric Brière
Date:
2014-10-01 15:39:09 UTC
Severity:
normal
#762765#5
Date:
2014-09-25 01:28:30 UTC
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I'm not sure whether this should be considered a documentation error or
an actual bug, but according to the procmailrc(5) manpage:

  These regular expressions are *completely* compatible to the normal
  egrep(1) extended regular expressions.

Yet, I could not get named character classes like [[:digit:]] to match
instead of [0-9], while egrep(1) handles them just fine.

(I wouldn't have been so surprised, were it not for the emphasis in the
manpage statement.  <g>)
#762765#10
Date:
2014-10-01 15:35:44 UTC
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To:
This is indeed one of those places where the manual is not accurate
enough, and in fact, I believe this issue has been reported before.

As the program is not very likely to change at this point, I will try
to fix the manpage to be closer to reality.

Thanks for the report.