Bug#760870: Patch to fix this issue

[Axel Beckert]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/491
Control: tags -1 + upstream fixed-upstream

Hi,

ppm wrote:
> The patch attached with this email seems to solve this issue.

Thanks for the patch.

> --- ack.orig	2014-09-04 03:48:46.000000000 +0000
> +++ ack	2014-09-12 08:24:46.744780094 +0000
> @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
>          $str = "(?i)$str";
>      }
>  
> -    my $re = eval { qr/$str/ };
> +    my $re = eval { qr/$str/m };
>      if ( !$re ) {
>          die "Invalid regex '$str':\n  $@";
>      }

Upstream already came to the same conclusion/patch:

https://github.com/petdance/ack2/commit/17504aa361eef269c57f43c21e16d1705cd1e7c0

Due to this issue there will be a new upstream release (2.16) very
soon anyways, so I'll wait for that one.

		Regards, Axel
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