find-maint: Distributions

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1 10 Distributions
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1 Almost all GNU/Linux distributions include findutils, but only some of
1 them have a package maintainer who is a member of the mailing list.
1 Distributions don't often feed back patches to the
1 <bug-findutils@gnu.org> list, but on the other hand many of their
1 patches relate only to standards for file locations and so forth, and
1 are therefore distribution specific.  On an irregular basis I check the
1 current patches being used by one or two distributions, but the total
1 number of GNU/Linux distributions is large enough that we could not hope
1 to cover them all.
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1    Often, bugs are raised against a distribution's bug tracker instead
1 of GNU's.  Periodically (about every six months) I take a look at some
1 of the more accessible bug trackers to indicate which bugs have been
1 fixed upstream.
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1    Many distributions include both findutils and the slocate package,
1 which provides a replacement 'locate'.
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