debian/control

contains basic information about the packages we are building.

Source: grep
Section: base
Priority: required
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 3.1.0

Package: grep
Architecture: any
Essential: yes
Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Pre-Depends}
Conflicts: rgrep
Provides: rgrep
Description: GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
 The GNU family of grep utilities may be the "fastest grep in the west".
 GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about
 twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper
 search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being
 ronsidered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to
 look at every character. The result is typically many times faster
 than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing backreferencing
 will run more slowly, however.)