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Re: xargs -i explanation not clear enough without examples


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: xargs -i explanation not clear enough without examples
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 17:56:19 -0600
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James Youngman wrote:
> I've just agreed today to take it on.  However, I've not yet started
> to process the bug-findutils mailing list archive to search it for
> previously-reported bugs.  My plan is to use the bug-tracker built
> into Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=findutils) to
> track bugs and wishlist items, unless there is a pre-existing
> mechanism.  Does anybody know of such an existing mechanism?

The Debian BTS has an extensive collection of reports on findutils.
(Including one from me with a patch for large environments which I
would dearly love to see incorporated.)  Kevin Dalley was both the GNU
maintainer and the Debian maintainer of findutils and so this is a
natural place to scan for bug reports.

  
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=findutils&archive=no

Note that without a Debian maintainer either this list of reports
severely needs housecleaning.  There are definitely a few bogus and
unreproducible reports there that should be closed.  But there are
also quite a few good patches that have been made to the code
downstream in the Debian packages which have not been able to make it
into the upstream GNU source.  If possible you might want to start
there.  That would clear up a large number of the bugs quickly and
with the least amount of effort.

There has not been an active maintainer of findutils for a while.  So
there is likely to be such a large backlog that I just recommend that
you start small and work up from there.  Otherwise you will get
overwhelmed.

Bob




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