[bug-grep] New tests failing [was: Bug in grep 2.5.1a (+ patch to fix it)]

[Julian Foad]

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Gordon Lack wrote:
>    Do you know the current CVS build fails 11 tests?  (Not sure if this
> is a "normal" state).

Yes, this is intentional.  These are tests for current bugs for which we are 
awaiting fixes.  (Some of the fixes may be in the patch queue.)  We wouldn't 
wan't to release a version with tests that fail, so if we want to release 
before fixing them all we would disable the tests that fail.  Ideally these 
tests would be in "expected failure" mode, but our test suite doesn't yet have 
that mode.

- Julian