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=old) has been removed. The old > +database format was deprecated in 2007 (and updatedb has warned about > +this since that time). The locate program will will read old-format
s/will will/will still/ > +databases, though this support also will be removed. Should you mention a tentative timeline for this removal, or even hedge it with "in a few more releases"? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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