Re: Proposed release announcement for findutils-4.6.0 - request for comments

2015-12-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2015-12-27 James Youngman wrote: [...] > 1. Some backward-incompatible changes have been made to find: > - egrep regular expressions now work like GNU grep -E > - Minor changes to the way nanoseconds fields are printed > - find -perm +mode is now fully POSIX compliant (if you > want t

[patch] maint: avoid syntax-check failures

2015-12-27 Thread Bernhard Voelker
Hi James, the attached is a set of patches to avoid various failures from 'make syntax-check'. They are supposed to be squashed into one commit, and only left separate to ease the review. Thanks & have a nice day, Berny >From 923c22d27a9467fbe2a8cdf00f4210ccbab672bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From

[bug #46714] make oldfind optional

2015-12-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #46714 (project findutils): few notes: - find/Makefile.am: using noinst_PROGRAMS means it'll still be compiled/linked. if you used check_PROGRAMS instead, that'd only happen if you did `make oldfind` or `make check`. - whitespace in find/Makefile.am with the new line i

Proposed release announcement for findutils-4.6.0 - request for comments

2015-12-27 Thread James Youngman
Please note that there, currently, is no 4.6.0 release. But I am considering making a 4.6.0 release that would likely be very similar to 4.5.18. A draft release note for that upcoming release is attached, please reply with any improvements / comments / etc. Thanks, James. I am pleased to announc

Announcing the release of findutils-4.5.18

2015-12-27 Thread James Youngman
I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.18 of GNU findutils. GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". More information about findu

[bug #46714] make oldfind optional

2015-12-27 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #46714 (project findutils): Status:None => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed Fixed Release:None => 4.5.18 ___

[bug #46714] make oldfind optional

2015-12-27 Thread James Youngman
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #46714 (project findutils): I made some additional minor changes, notably to unix.exp. ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message

[bug #46714] make oldfind optional

2015-12-27 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #46714 (project findutils): Release: 4.5.17 => 4.3.0 ___ Reply to this item at: ___ M

Re: Proposed stable release of GNU findutils: opinions?

2015-12-27 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 12/18/2015 04:26 PM, James Youngman wrote: > I'm considering making a stable release (i.e. 4.6.0) of GNU findutils > in the next few days, essentially identical to the recent 4.5.15 > release, with a version number change. > > What are your thoughts on this? Clearly there are a number of open

[bug #46714] make oldfind optional

2015-12-27 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #46714 (project findutils): Severity: 3 - Normal => 2 - Minor Assigned to:None => jay Release:None => 4.5.17

Re: [patch] Use official FDL license grant

2015-12-27 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Hello, > > find attached a trivial patch against GIT head to use the official FDL > license wording as listed in FDL's "ADDENDUM: How to use this License > for your documents". Applied as the attached patch; please take a look at the comm