Re: next release version of findutils?

[Kamil Dudka]

On Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:30:39 AM CEST Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 08/08/2018 09:49 AM, Karl Nordström wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I wanted to ask whether there is a new release for findutils comming up?
> > 
> > I want to add it to conda-forge and am having trouble passing make
> > check. Partly perhaps due to inexperience, but I think some of the tests
> > have been updated since 4.6.0. I think one such example is mbrtowc:
> > 
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=1f63650823cebf52044
> > df840c81062ccb52163a2
> > 
> > The build system is very bare-bones and I'm also having problems with
> > strftime and the 'ahistorical' tests. Here I haven't delved as deep.
> > 
> > Currently I lean towards skipping the tests. Would you be terribly
> > opposed to that?
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Karl
> 
> Hi Karl,
> 
> indeed, a new cut of the GNU findutils is overdue: we have already 187
> commits since v4.6.0 which was released around Xmas 2015.
> I have a few things open on my side, but then need to find some time to do
> the release together with James.
> 
> Re. the tests: in that situation, I'd try to skip the gnulib tests,
> and only let the find/xargs tests run.  Or you can try with a new snapshot
> tarball created with './bootstrap && ./configure && make all dist' from a
> git clone.

... or just pick the upstream commit(s) to make the test-suite pass again,
as we do in Fedora:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/findutils.git/commit?id=3f5b9b5d

Kamil

> Have a nice day,
> Berny