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Re: findutils not actively maintained



Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
[Impressive list of fixed bugs]
>  * 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]
[...]

How did you go about this? This is a bug in mount. Imho there is
nothing to do in find, because both indexing and not indexing auto can
be wrong, and not indexing it is the better safe default.
              cu andreas
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