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Re: findutils not actively maintained



On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:41:41PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Can someone take a look at some of them, especially the exclusion requests
> for updatedb and consider posting a few NMUs?

Uploaded into http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/findutils/
I'll try to contact Kevin and if I don't hear back from him I'll upload to
incoming in about a week.

findutils (4.1.7-2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-Maintainer upload.
  * Closes: #123919: findutils: find segfaults on ia64
  * debian/rules, debian/postinst: Use numeric id 0 instead of "root"
    Closes: #67507: user "root"
  * Closes: #102708: locate usage message lacks final newline
    Closes: #124333: Missing newline for helptext in locate
    Closes: #140941: findutils: locate with no args is missing final \n
    Closes: #149126: findutils: locate should print a newline after its
      error message
    Closes: #149716: findutils: locate doesn't print final newline
    Closes: #161083: findutils: If you run locate without parameters,
      there is no final newline in the output
  * Closes: #117425: findutils: xargs: missing newline on "--help" output
    Closes: #124178: xargs --help doesn't end in a newline
  * Closes: #141354: findutils: include devfs to list PRUNEFS
  * Closes: #166085: Need to exclude the mfs filesystem for mosix and
      openmosix
  * Closes: #113139: updatedb: please remove "auto" from PRUNEFS
    Closes: #129121: I don't believe fstype AUTO should be excluded in
      updatedb.conf
    Closes: #132430: auto in PRUNEFS in /etc/updatedb.conf has unexpected
      sideeffect!
    Closes: #144649: the updatedb cron script does not work on root
      filesystem type auto
    Closes: #119603: locate should index filetype (auto) [ext3fs]
  * debian/cron.find: complain if user "nobody" does not exist.
    Closes: #97367: locate-database is destroyed by /etc/cron.daily/find
  * Closes: #109920: updatedb should not scan /sfs
  * Use a default shell of /bin/sh to run find as the user nobody.
    Closes: #113774: findutils: updatedb makes assumption about localuser
    Closes: #119719, #119721: updatedb doesn't work in cron.daily/find if
      the user nobody has no login shell
  * Include LOCALUSER into /etc/updatedb.conf
    Closes: #152635: midnight updatedb always runs as nobody
  * Moved locatedb from /var/lib/locate/ to /var/cache/locate/
    Closes: #115399: findutils: locate FHS violation

 -- Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Oct 2002 15:35:49 +0200

Thomas
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