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grep-2.28 is broken with multiple -e patterns

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Message #16 received at 25655-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: polynomial-c <at> gentoo.org, 25655-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#25655: grep-2.28 is broken with multiple -e patterns
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 13:42:47 -0800

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for reporting that. It's a reasonably serious bug. I installed the
>> attached patch to fix it.

Thanks for the quick fix, indeed.

> 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.

I will make a new release very soon.

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