[Logcheck-devel] Bug#712941: logcheck-database: logcheck triggers a fatal error in egrep

[shizuma at vif.com]

Package: logcheck-database
  Version: 1.3.15
  Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
  Since I upgraded to wheezy in may, logcheck reports contain only one
  line:

egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]

This is a fatal error.

Downgrading to grep/oldstable 'fixed' this temporarily and restored
  logcheck
  functionality.

The tendency seems to fix each affected package.  I've found several
  that
  were at one point or another affected by this:


https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22character+class+syntax+is+[[%3Aspace%3A]]%2C+not+[%3Aspace%3A]%22+&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozill

Reproductible: always.

System Information:
  Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable'), (100,
  'oldstable')
  Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
  Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
  Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
  Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Configuration Files:
  /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/samba changed [not included]

no debconf information