On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Should you mention a tentative timeline for this removal, or even hedge
> it with "in a few more releases"?
I wanted to do this, but stopped short of doing so for these reasons:
1. Given the history of the 4.4.x -> 4.6.0 journey, it's entirely
On 01/09/2016 03:26 PM, James Youngman wrote:
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline
> -*- (allout)
>
> ** Changes to locate / updatedb
>
> +Support for generating old-format databases (with updatedb
> +--old-format or updatedb --dbformat=
* locate/testsuite/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST_EXP): Remove
locate.gnu/old_prefix.exp and locate.gnu/oldformat.exp.
(EXTRA_DIST_XO): Remove locate.gnu/old_prefix.xo and
locate.gnu/oldformat.xo.
* doc/find.texi (Database Formats): Remove the warning about old
versions of locate failing to read the LOCAT