Bug#435787: RFP: mlocate -- mlocate is a new locate implementation

[Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : mlocate
  Version         : 0.17
  Upstream Author : http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/
* URL             : Miloslav Trmač <mitr@redhat.com>
* License         : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
  Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
  Description     : mlocate is a new locate implementation

from the website:
mlocate is a new locate implementation. The ‘m’ stands for “merging”: updatedb reuses the 
existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster 
and does not trash the system caches as much.

The locate(1) utility is intended to be completely compatible to slocate. It also attempts 
to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does not conflict with slocate compatibility.



there already exists an unofficial debian package:
http://kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz/~makovick/



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1-rt1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash