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FYI, grep-2.15 is released:

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 15724-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15724: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix "release" target to build _version
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 00:53:39 +0000

On 10/27/2013 02:30 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> This fixes a problem Paul noticed with grep-2.15:
> 
> From 4c2f17d2a671eb6fc6ae318647040598f67705cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering <at> fb.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:26:13 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix "release" target to build _version
> 
> This fixes a bug in README-release whereby following the outlined
> steps, one would publish a tarball whose programs would report
> --version output not consistent with the package version number.
> This bug caused grep-2.15 to produce a grep program whose
> --version option made it print 2.14.56-1e3d rather than 2.15.
> * top/maint.mk (release): Making this target build "_version"
> ensures that the new version number is reflected in configure.

Cool, we'll get that on the next gnulib sync,
which we'll be doing soon,
so marking this done.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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