diff --git a/man7/regex.7 b/man7/regex.7
index 9a87d31d3..0167e7bc0 100644
--- a/man7/regex.7
+++ b/man7/regex.7
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 .\" I added an AUTHOR paragraph below - aeb.
 .\"
 .\" In the default nroff environment there is no dagger \(dg.
+.\"
+.\" 2005-05-11 Removed discussion of `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]', which
+.\" 	appear not to be in the glibc implementation of regcomp
+.\"
 .ie t .ds dg \(dg
 .el .ds dg (!)
 .TH REGEX 7 1994-02-07 
@@ -157,23 +161,25 @@ These stand for the character classes defined in
 .BR wctype (3).
 A locale may provide others.
 A character class may not be used as an endpoint of a range.
-.PP
-There are two special cases\*(dg of bracket expressions:
-the bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null string at
-the beginning and end of a word respectively.
-A word is defined as a sequence of
-word characters
-which is neither preceded nor followed by
-word characters.
-A word character is an
-.I alnum
-character (as defined by
-.BR wctype (3))
-or an underscore.
-This is an extension,
-compatible with but not specified by POSIX 1003.2,
-and should be used with
-caution in software intended to be portable to other systems.
+.\" As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666
+.\" The following does not seem to apply in the glibc implementation
+.\" .PP
+.\" There are two special cases\*(dg of bracket expressions:
+.\" the bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null string at
+.\" the beginning and end of a word respectively.
+.\" A word is defined as a sequence of
+.\" word characters
+.\" which is neither preceded nor followed by
+.\" word characters.
+.\" A word character is an
+.\" .I alnum
+.\" character (as defined by
+.\" .BR wctype (3))
+.\" or an underscore.
+.\" This is an extension,
+.\" compatible with but not specified by POSIX 1003.2,
+.\" and should be used with
+.\" caution in software intended to be portable to other systems.
 .PP
 In the event that an RE could match more than one substring of a given
 string,