bug#21088: Question about fgrep and egrep

[LCD 47]

    This is not a bug report, but there doesn't seem to be any better
place for my question than this, so I'm asking it here.

    According to the manual:

: In addition, the variant programs egrep and fgrep are the same as grep
: -E and grep -F, respectively.  These variants are deprecated, but are
: provided for backward compatibility.

    Is there any plan to remove support for fgrep and egrep in the
predictible future?  If yes, is there any timeline set for that action?

    /lcd