bug#44351: Bug in grep v3.2 onwards in regular expression matching

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 8:02 AM Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 7:31 AM Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk@kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > By the way, I was wondering whether to add the test to ere.tests or
> > spencer1.tests or to a new file.  How should they be used properly?
>
> Adding the new test in either place is fine, but there should be a comment.
>
> Also, we need a NEWS entry. I'll add that separately.

My mention of NEWS here is ambiguous.
When I wrote that, I was thinking of grep's NEWS file.
Just after sending, I realized I must also mention the fix in gnulib's
NEWS file.
Amending shortly.

> More importantly, there must be a test in gnulib. I'm adding one with
> the attached.