From 208edc200d8bd7f9ce63cd348445b21fdbf58984 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:02:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint.mk: backslash-escape parens in default regexp

* top/maint.mk (news-check-regexp): Now that we're using grep -E,
backslash-escape the literal parentheses.
---
 ChangeLog    | 4 ++++
 top/maint.mk | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d7025c3835..ddf5204056 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2009-12-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
+	maint.mk: backslash-escape parens in default regexp
+	* top/maint.mk (news-check-regexp): Now that we're using grep -E,
+	backslash-escape the literal parentheses.
+
 	maint.mk: news-date-check: use grep -E
 	* top/maint.mk (today): Define a Make variable, not a...
 	(news-date-check): ...shell variable.
diff --git a/top/maint.mk b/top/maint.mk
index 596da386d9..1ed15413cd 100644
--- a/top/maint.mk
+++ b/top/maint.mk
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ endif
 # Override this in cfg.mk if you are using a different format in your
 # NEWS file.
 today = $(shell date +%Y-%m-%d)
-news-check-regexp ?= '^\*.* $(VERSION_REGEXP) ($(today))'
+news-check-regexp ?= '^\*.* $(VERSION_REGEXP) \($(today)\)'
 
 # Prevent programs like 'sort' from considering distinct strings to be equal.
 # Doing it here saves us from having to set LC_ALL elsewhere in this file.
-- 
2.30.2