GNU bug report logs - #25655
grep-2.28 is broken with multiple -e patterns

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 19:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 25655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
To: 25655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, polynomial-c <at> gentoo.org
Subject: Re: bug#25655: grep-2.28 is broken with multiple -e patterns
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:32:45 -0600

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks for reporting that. It's a reasonably serious bug. I installed the
> attached patch to fix it.

Thanks for the patch.  Are you going to consider releasing 2.28.1 soon? 
LFS is going into a package freeze in a few days and we would prefer a new 
version to a patch.

  -- Bruce
     linuxfromscratch.org
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