Subject: Re: bug#19775: Test failing after the CVE fix

From: Vladimír Čunát <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:54:10 +0100

On 02/05/2015 01:56 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> XFAIL means it's eXpected to FAIL.  So when the test fails, that means
> the test is working (though 'grep' itself has a bug, of course).

I seem to be missing some basic understanding. The test is eXpected to 
fail, and it fails with assertion error, but "make check" fails (all 
other tests are passed or skipped).

Or is the assertion failure a wrong way to fail in the test?

Vladimir