Bug#975455: devtodo: failing autopkgtests with grep 3.6

[Carlos Henrique Lima Melara <charlesmelara@outlook.com>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

Hi, Sven.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 03:19:23PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> The purge-tasks and rm-tasks-and-db-file autopkgtests are currently
> failing on ci.debian.net, creating a migration problem for ncurses.  It
> seems however that this has nothing to do with the new ncurses version
> but is related to a change in grep 3.5:
> 
> ,----
> |   The --files-without-match (-L) option has reverted to its behavior
> |   in grep 3.1 and earlier.  That is, grep -L again succeeds when a
> |   line is selected, not when a file is listed.  The behavior in grep
> |   3.2 through 3.4 was causing compatibility problems.
> `----
> 
> Both tests in question run grep -L as their last command and are failing
> with grep 3.6-1 while they succeeded with earlier grep versions (prior
> to 2020-11-17, testing had grep 3.4-1).

Thanks to let me know. I did see this problem yesterday but didn't have
time to fix.

I'll be fixing it today and hopefully will be in unstable this week.

Cheers,
Charles