I was wondering the same when you could not reported that it does not happen for you. So I did use wget to pull it to another host from LP. The result was what I posted in comment #3. That system was a fresh install (not an upgrade) using the default system language (though German keyboard and timezone). Buildds and sbuild in Xenial chroots would fail to build the related package (Xen) , so that environment saw the same. I worked around that for now by forcing the build to be done in C.UTF-8.
I still marked the bug high because if that happens to any other package (should they use grep) it might cause unexplainable FTBS or even go unnoticed (if the result is not checked, that happened in my case only because the build uses grep as part of a chain that creates dynamic C files). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to grep in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1547466 Title: grep switches into binary mode while processing a text file Status in grep package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I noticed this staring to happen in Xenial about two days ago. When running sbuild (or now the buildd, too), the build breaks when trying to compile a generated file. I traced the problem down to grep suddenly acting weird. When not having any language set (or a non-UTF8 mode) it will start printing some lines of a source file and then suddenly end that by printing "Binary file ... matches". With the attached file, the difference can be observed (running Xenial): LANG=C grep -v xxx grant_table.h and LANG=C.UTF-8 grep -v xxx grant_table.h To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grep/+bug/1547466/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
