Comment 2 for bug 1842133

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Keith Thompson (kst) wrote :

> First off: Ubuntu/Debian do not ship "patched version of the GNU findutils
> package [...] based on release 4.6.0".

OK. When I do "apt-get source findutils" I get a "findutils_4.6.0+git+20170828-2.debian.tar.xz"
file that does include two patches, but neither of them seems to be relevant to this issue.

The "findutils_4.6.0+git+20170828.orig.tar.xz" file I get from the same apt-get command
unpacks to a "findutils-4.7.0-gitfindutils-4.7.0-git" directory.

I just built findutils revision febde26dd0e66dda5d4060fa29b85443ddc6a865 from source, and
the resulting "find" command does print "find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git" when invoked with
"--version". So it seems to be an upstream issue. "info findutils", which loads
/usr/share/info/find.info.gz, also reports version 4.7.0-git.

Whatever the cause, I suggest that "4.7.0-git" is misleading, since release 4.7.0 did not
yet exist.

I could submit a bug report against the upstream findutils component. Should I do so?

(To be clear, I'm not saying this is a major, or even necessarily significant, problem.)