GNU bug report logs - #15724
FYI, grep-2.15 is released:

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Message #17 received at 15724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 15724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15724: FYI, grep-2.15 is released:
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:15:26 -0700

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 On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Here's the announcement:
>>>
>>>   https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7763
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> In that release 'grep --version' outputs this:
>>
>> grep (GNU grep) 2.14.56-1e3d
>
> Well, that's an unpleasant surprise -- and cause for at least one more
> pre-release check.
> I don't know yet what went wrong, but will post as soon as I do.
> Thanks for the heads up.

As explained in
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=4c2f17d2a6, this was
due to a mismatch between README-release instructions and semantics of
the "release" target in maint.mk.  I've adjusted the latter so this
won't happen again.  Here's the change that pulls in the gnulib fix:

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