Re: findutils not actively maintained
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:09:33PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:04:42PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > 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
>
> Yes, you're right, but this is a good thing until mount is fixed.
>
> Has a bug been filed on mount?
Yep:
#116288: mount: mount leaves type auto in /etc/mtab
Package: mount; Reported by: Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>; 1 year and 9 days old.
There are a bunch of bogus bugs against mount too, and several still against
potato...
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