bug#59444: ADVICE-ON-FAILURE sed syntax error

[Mattias Engdegård]

21 nov. 2022 kl. 13.49 skrev Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>:

> Again I tested this with (GNU) sed with --posix, and it gave the expected 
> result.

Then what we should learn from this is that GNU sed --posix cannot be trusted 
blindly to reject non-POSIX features.
This is unsurprising -- it can be difficult to keep all extensions from leaking 
past the gate.

>  The reason I chose the former expression instead of the latter is because 
> it's how I usually write such patterns.

That doesn't answer the question. Why that roundabout way, rather than the 
simpler direct approach?

> Fixed (a3b654e069) and closing.

That seems to work. Thank you!