Comment 2 for bug 914037

Hi Eric,
  Hmm, yes this is a bit confusing,

I agree your 'agrep -S1' case is producing the wrong result, however in 4.17-9 the manpage says:
' -Sk Set the cost of a substitution to k (k is a positive integer). This option does not currently work with regular
              expressions.'

so, I think that's just a limitation on agrep 4.17

I agree the -1 case is wrong to emit 'aterfal' since I agree it's nowhere in the input (and that's why I've confirmed it).

As for versions, yes, it's a mess, the 'homepage' listed in debian/control points to http://freshmeat.net/projects/agrep whcih points to the 2.04 version ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/agrep/

The package has a 4.17 source tar and from what I can see it comes from http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/Local/urz/ding/contrib/SRPMS/agrep-4.17-1.src.rpm that was suggested in the following debian bug

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307442

but as you say the printed version number is completely inconsistent in that source.