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Normal bugs - outstanding:

• #24160: [PATCH 1/2] sed: cache results of mbrtowc for speed
  Package: sed; Reported by: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 3265 days old.
• #24457: [PATCH] sed: use dfa matcher for regex with anchor
  Package: sed; Reported by: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 3222 days old.
• #29556: Question About sed for Windows
  Package: sed; Reported by: Ronald Satz <transpower@HIDDEN>; 2780 days old.
• #33181: sed --debug: fix two problems
  Package: sed; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 2452 days old.
• #34141: Stackoverflow triggered at lib/regexec.c:1948
  Package: sed; Reported by: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@HIDDEN>; 2368 days old.
• #34142: AddressSanitizer reported heap-buffer-overflow
  Package: sed; Reported by: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@HIDDEN>; 2368 days old.
• #36128: Failed tests for sed 4.7 on Solaris 10 x86
  Package: sed; Reported by: Dagobert Michelsen <dam@HIDDEN>; 2229 days old.
• #36201: Inserting files with r *before* the address
  Package: sed; Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 2223 days old.
• #37195: sed documentation improvement suggestion
  Package: sed; Reported by: is a <yangshuai@HIDDEN>; 2149 days old.
• #38280: FAIL: test-canonicalize-lgpl with GCC 10
  Package: sed; Reported by: Martin Liška <mliska@HIDDEN>; 2064 days old.
• #38706: error
  Package: sed; Reported by: Garn-Bachmann <garn@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo notabug; 2031 days old.
• #39165: [PATCH] sed: handle very long execution lines
  Package: sed; Reported by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 2005 days old.
• #39652: SED preinstall check failed
  Package: sed; Reported by: Gopinath Sekar <Gopinath.Sekar@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 1974 days old.
• #40058: possible bug in sed?
  Package: sed; Reported by: David Misc <davidmiscem@HIDDEN>; 1949 days old.
• #40325: make backup files for "-i" option invisible
  Package: sed; Reported by: nokangaroo <aon.913677709@HIDDEN>; 1932 days old.
• #40404: sed v.4.5 – Rows Invoked for deletion are present in output
  Package: sed; Reported by: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg@HIDDEN>; 1928 days old.
• #41558: Regexp Bug
  Package: sed; Reported by: "anton.paras" <anton@HIDDEN>; 1875 days old.
• #41617: Bug.
  Package: sed; Reported by: Anurag Kumar <anuragsinghsmth@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 1871 days old.
• #41773: Fuzzer created crash
  Package: sed; Reported by: Raimar Falke <i-gnu-org@HIDDEN>; 1862 days old.
• #42133: Error in 2nd example at www.gnu.org/software/sed/
  Package: sed; Reported by: James Waldby <j13@HIDDEN>; 1841 days old.
• #42418: a test failure and a core file on Solaris 10 and Oracle/Fujitsu SPARC M-class servers
  Package: sed; Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@HIDDEN>; 1822 days old.
• #42963: sed clean my file
  Package: sed; Reported by: 杨公所 <hzgongsuo2012@HIDDEN>; 1789 days old.
• #43999: sed: couldn't re-allocate memory
  Package: sed; Reported by: markfilipak.linux+gnuorg@HIDDEN; Keywords: moreinfo; 1734 days old.
• #45301: Sed Installation Errors
  Package: sed; Reported by: Sarah Moreland <smmorel@HIDDEN>; 1670 days old.
• #45949: documentation is incorrect about the T command
  Package: sed; Reported by: Nora Platiel <nplatiel@HIDDEN>; 1639 days old.
• #46428: qq
  Package: sed; Reported by: L A Walsh <law@HIDDEN>; 1615 days old.
• #46581: Test failures on cygwin
  Package: sed; Reported by: Soren <somian08@HIDDEN>; 1609 days old.
• #47281: sed: problem with hex replace a literal '$'
  Package: sed; Reported by: Bastian Bittorf <bb@HIDDEN>; 1577 days old.
• #47390: -i and -n options are order-sensitive
  Package: sed; Reported by: rgrosso <r.grosso@HIDDEN>; 1572 days old.
• #48167: When nervous about \+ portability
  Package: sed; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 1534 days old.
• #48677: typos in 5.8.1 Escaping Precedence
  Package: sed; Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@HIDDEN>; 1510 days old.
• #48725: surprising error char/pos with --sandbox + s///e command
  Package: sed; Reported by: Travis Everett <travis.a.everett@HIDDEN>; 1508 days old.
• #49092: Bug/Limitation of sed
  Package: sed; Reported by: Alice Golakiya <golakiyaalice@HIDDEN>; 1487 days old.
• #49287: sed -i disrespects read-only
  Package: sed; Reported by: Leonid Mironov <lvm@HIDDEN>; 1476 days old.
• #49590: Error in GNU sed manual
  Package: sed; Reported by: Matthew Hoffman <matthewchoffman@HIDDEN>; 1460 days old.
• #49680: Errors in Texinfo documentation
  Package: sed; Reported by: Renaud Pacalet <renaud.pacalet@HIDDEN>; 1454 days old.
• #50185: Start of line not recognised
  Package: sed; Reported by: flywire <flywire0@HIDDEN>; 1420 days old.
• #51462: sed bug: ASCII NUL not handled in simple pattern
  Package: sed; Reported by: Frances Wingerter <fw@HIDDEN>; 1355 days old.
• #51560: Pattern matching not working as expected
  Package: sed; Reported by: Rob Dyck <rob.dyck@HIDDEN>; 1351 days old.
• #52944: FYI: gnulib update, copyright update, recursive, disable-indent
  Package: sed; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 1290 days old.
• #54113: Fwd: sed leaving temporary files behind
  Package: sed; Reported by: bug-sed@HIDDEN; 1238 days old.
• #54484: "sed -E" is not specified by POSIX
  Package: sed; Reported by: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson@HIDDEN>; 1212 days old.
• #54614: GNU Sed 's/.../\n/' disagreement with POSIX
  Package: sed; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 1204 days old.
• #55112: [Issue 8 drafts 0001556]: clarify meaning of \n used in a bracket expression in a sed context address or s-command
  Package: sed; Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake@HIDDEN>; 1176 days old.
• #55950: Inconsistency typo in info doc.
  Package: sed; Reported by: Martin Castillo <castilma@HIDDEN>; 1127 days old.
• #56018: sed bug when using extended regular expressions and [] with backslash character class identifiers.
  Package: sed; Reported by: Bob Power <b_power@HIDDEN>; 1124 days old.
• #56764: Sed man page omits 'g' flag for substitute command
  Package: sed; Reported by: Tom Ekberg <tekberg@HIDDEN>; 1085 days old.
• #56861: [PATCH] test-canonicalize-lgpl fails with musl libc
  Package: sed; Reported by: Sören Tempel <soeren@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 1079 days old.
• #57830: [PATCH] testsuite: Remove stray semicolon
  Package: sed; Reported by: Marvin Schmidt <marvin.schmidt1987@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 1033 days old.
• #57831: [PATCH] testsuite: Remove stray semicolon
  Package: sed; Reported by: Marvin Schmidt <marvin.schmidt1987@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 1033 days old.
• #58287: bug report in linux while using sed command
  Package: sed; Reported by: Shagun Narendra Agarwal <shagun.a@HIDDEN>; 1015 days old.
• #58416: -u should only affect stdout, not stdin
  Package: sed; Reported by: Andras Korn <korn-gnu.org@HIDDEN>; 1008 days old.
• #59119: test-free segfaults with PGO
  Package: sed; Reported by: Andreas Stieger <Andreas.Stieger@HIDDEN>; 980 days old.
• #59599: Possible sed bug
  Package: sed; Reported by: John Larew <john.larew@HIDDEN>; 962 days old.
• #59656: An error on your web page (example 7.20)
  Package: sed; Reported by: "Tomas Kana " <kana@HIDDEN>; 960 days old.
• #60236: [4.9] Link error on MinGW cross compile Linux -> Windows
  Package: sed; Reported by: Frank Büttner <frank.buettner@HIDDEN>; 937 days old.
• #60378: gsed foreign language translations aren't working
  Package: sed; Reported by: Yuri <yuri@HIDDEN>; 929 days old.
• #60425: Maybe a security issue
  Package: sed; Reported by: Fabio Luiz Barbosa <fabio.barbosa@HIDDEN>; 928 days old.
• #60458: Test suite failure (testsuite/debug) with UBSAN
  Package: sed; Reported by: Sam James <sam@HIDDEN>; 926 days old.
• #61160: 5 test failures on Android
  Package: sed; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 897 days old.
• #61787: [gnu.org #1923372] sed - build problem - malloc - savannah git master head (today)
  Package: sed; Reported by: webmasters@HIDDEN; 870 days old.
• #62133: regression on compling sed-4.9 on SunOS 5.10
  Package: sed; Reported by: Eike Dierks <foonlyboy@HIDDEN>; 856 days old.
• #62328: Not working on ubunto wsl \w, \d, [[:digit:]] not working and [0,9] only sometimes
  Package: sed; Reported by: Anneliese Leipold <anneliese.leipold@HIDDEN>; 846 days old.
• #62788: please include real man page in distribution
  Package: sed; Reported by: Thomas Klausner <tk@HIDDEN>; 825 days old.
• #63812: sed bug
  Package: sed; Reported by: yu cuilu <yucuilu@HIDDEN>; 775 days old.
• #63813: sed bug
  Package: sed; Reported by: yu cuilu <yucuilu@HIDDEN>; 775 days old.
• #63833: sed -iSUFFIX/--in-place=SUFFIX doesn't work for absolute paths if the input file(s) is not in the current directory.
  Package: sed; Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754@HIDDEN>; 774 days old.
• #63834: Outdated manuals at gnu.org/software/sed/manual
  Package: sed; Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754@HIDDEN>; 774 days old.
• #63846: Typo in sed manual, missing "@cindex"
  Package: sed; Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754@HIDDEN>; 773 days old.
• #63958: Manual doesn't mention that spaces are allowed between address and command.
  Package: sed; Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754@HIDDEN>; 768 days old.
• #64080: e execute command within braces
  Package: sed; Reported by: Thomas Loimer <thomas.loimer@HIDDEN>; 760 days old.
• #64539: Possible issue with GNU sed documentation regarding the -n option
  Package: sed; Reported by: Ângelo Otávio Nuffer Nunes <angelonuffer@HIDDEN>; 737 days old.
• #65421: [REGRESSION] Removal of gnuopt in 4.9
  Package: sed; Reported by: "Osipov, Michael (IN IT IN)" <michael.osipov@HIDDEN>; 694 days old.
• #66236: Specific Korean characters break Unicode parsing
  Package: sed; Reported by: kristian.jarventaus@HIDDEN; 656 days old.
• #66411: sed --debug option prints the contents of the hold space after running the 'g' command
  Package: sed; Reported by: Zachary Santer <zsanter@HIDDEN>; 645 days old.
• #66893: Error: sed: couldn't open temporary file ./sed7hc859: Permission denied
  Package: sed; Reported by: Abraham Osmond <abraham@HIDDEN>; 621 days old.
• #66907: 3.2 sed commands summary missing commands
  Package: sed; Reported by: lostbits <forum@HIDDEN>; 620 days old.
• #68725: GNU grep and sed behaving unexpectedly with multiple 1-or-0 RE capture groups and backreferences
  Package: sed; Reported by: Ed Morton <mortoneccc@HIDDEN>; 536 days old.
• #68726: GNU grep and sed behaving unexpectedly with multiple 1-or-0 RE capture groups and backreferences
  Package: sed; Reported by: Ed Morton <mortoneccc@HIDDEN>; 536 days old.
• #70232: Bug in argument handling may lead to segfault if --debug is passed after any compile step
  Package: sed; Reported by: 37@HIDDEN; 465 days old.
• #70476: `**` GNU extension only works when ERE syntax is enabled
  Package: sed; Reported by: Dylan Brotherston <d.brotherston@HIDDEN>; 451 days old.
• #70866: panic-tests.sh test fails when run as root
  Package: sed; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 430 days old.
• #70867: sed fails to compile on AIX and MSVC
  Package: sed; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 430 days old.
• #71119: Order of options bug: -iE vs. -Ei
  Package: sed; Reported by: Jakub Šebek <jakub.sebek.o@HIDDEN>; 418 days old.
• #71682: sed -i '' returns error but still modify target file
  Package: sed; Reported by: Renato Botelho <garga@HIDDEN>; 389 days old.
• #72270: missing major point in the sed(1) man page for command n
  Package: sed; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 356 days old.
• #72800: maint: adjust to Gnulib acl changes
  Package: sed; Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@HIDDEN>; 324 days old.
• #73546: sed 4.9 UTF-8 SMP mismatch on Cygwin
  Package: sed; Reported by: Brian.Inglis@HIDDEN; 289 days old.
• #73598: bug in sed Invalid preceding regular expression
  Package: sed; Reported by: Peter Smulders <p.j.m.smulders@HIDDEN>; 285 days old.
• #74065: documentation suggestion for caret
  Package: sed; Reported by: Greg Minshall <minshall@HIDDEN>; 259 days old.
• #74452: sed -i --follow-symlinks fails in i586 with large paths
  Package: sed; Reported by: daniel.garcia@HIDDEN; 236 days old.
• #74577: bug-about-sed
  Package: sed; Reported by: "820648178" <820648178@HIDDEN>; 229 days old.
• #74578: sed-bug
  Package: sed; Reported by: wu <wcg226043@HIDDEN>; 229 days old.
• #74579:
  Package: sed; Reported by: shi xinzhao <z3201881310@HIDDEN>; 229 days old.
• #75572: [PATCH] doc/sed.x: Use a single font macro for a single argument.
  Package: sed; Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 181 days old.
• #76706: [PATCH] build: fix compile errors on platforms without getopt.h
  Package: sed; Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 134 days old.
• #77462: "/s" instability? I think this is a bug.
  Package: sed; Reported by: "gnudborgonly@HIDDEN" <gnudborgonly@HIDDEN>; 103 days old.
• #77786: GNU sed in POSIX mode sometimes not matching newlines
  Package: sed; Reported by: Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@HIDDEN>; 92 days old.
• #78827: Performance bug with extended regex {i,j} range
  Package: sed; Reported by: Szász Gergely <szaszg@HIDDEN>; 26 days old.
• #78883: backslash interpretation in 's' replacement text violates POSIX
  Package: sed; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 21 days old.
• #78885: [PATCH] maint: assume that compilers support '\a' as specified by C89
  Package: sed; Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 21 days old.
• #78969: maint: fix Automake warning
  Package: sed; Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@HIDDEN>; 8 days old.

Wishlist items - outstanding:

• #19842: sed bug: using -e instead of a literal newline in s replacement fails
  Package: sed; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Evan Gates <evan.gates@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug moreinfo; 3806 days old.
• #21251: sed: POSIX and the z command
  Package: sed; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo notabug; 3623 days old.
• #22427: Odd behaviour of sed with n/N and line ranges
  Package: sed; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 3462 days old.
• #27269: Sed --in-place is messing NTFS file permissions
  Package: sed; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Maiko Cezar Rodrigues Costa <maiko.cezar@HIDDEN>; 2960 days old.
• #53756: Just feature request
  Package: sed; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Tathastu Pandya <ptathastu@HIDDEN>; 1257 days old.

Normal bugs - resolved:

• #78940: REGEX wrongfully matches pattern
  Package: sed; Reported by: "Duchesne, Alexandre" <duchesne.alexandre.3@HIDDEN>; Done: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>.
• #78979: Correct example in documentation
  Package: sed; Reported by: Hans Ginzel <hansginzel@HIDDEN>; Done: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>.