debian appears to be just removing the warnings: grep (3.8-2) unstable; urgency=low This Debian grep release removes the deprecation warning about eg

debian appears to be just removing the warnings: grep (3.8-2) unstable; urgency=low This Debian grep release removes the deprecation warning about egrep and fgrep. These alternative programs will be still shipped by Debian. Although, for portability reasons, users are encouraged to use grep with the concerned options instead of those alternative programs.