Comment 13 for bug 1940999

> How about:
> * New upstream version 3.7 to fix FTBFS (LP: #1940999)

Yes, I like that better.

OK, I have updated my proposal. I recommend that we address this FTBFS by using grep 3.7 with built-in regex. This is a change from current and will increase binary size. (180k -> 260k when built locally) but passes all tests without adding a skip directive.

grep 3.7 looks reasonably benign in terms of a new release. One change is called out as neither a feature nor a bug fix, but upstream says it's only relevant to Windows. See the NEWS diff for the wording there. I'm happy to go the feature freeze exception route, but I think we are covered based on that ChangeLog/NEWS. That said, I will defer to suggestions here.

> If updating grep to 3.7 is the easiest way to fix the problem then we can consider that.

We could pull out the fix(es) as needed from the gnulib updates but that sounds like not a generally wise choice. I have not investigated this angle.

I believe all feedback has been addressed, except for the forward to Debian step which I'm intentionally deferring while we discuss solutions.

Please let me know what you think, Robie. Thanks!