[debbugs-tracker] bug#20526: closed (BUG: text file is detected as binary)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: BUG: text file is detected as binary Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 13:08:08 +0200

Fedora 21
grep (GNU grep) 2.21

Grep detects text file as Binary. File is attached.

file Makefile 
Makefile: ISO-8859 text

ack PKG_NAME
Makefile
10:PKG_NAME:=clearsilver
14:PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz

grep --version ; grep "PKG_NAME" Makefile
grep (GNU grep) 2.7
...
PKG_NAME:=clearsilver
PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz

grep --version ; grep "PKG_NAME" Makefile
grep (GNU grep) 2.21
...
Binary file Makefile matches

Makefile
Description: Text Data

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: grep BUG: text file is detected as binary Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:25:04 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 I installed into Savannah a patch (attached) that should fix this problem in typical cases, and am boldly marking the bug as done. Please give the fix a try if you have the time. Thanks.

0001-grep-be-less-picky-about-encoding-errors.patch
Description: Text Data

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