Package: findutils Version: 4.6.0+git+20161106-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
This is a regression as it worked in Jessie and works again in Buster, but fails in Stretch: (note: i have a script to remove dangling symlinks that relied on 'find ... -printf %Y' returning 'N' for broken symlinks that doesn't work because of this bug) [Stretch] (INcorrect behavior) $ lsb_release -cs stretch $ mkdir symlink-test $ cd symlink-test $ ln -sf /tmp fronk $ ln -sf /adfasdf blonk $ ln -sf spizzle spizzle $ find . -xdev -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type l -printf "%Y: %p # ->%l \n" l: ./blonk # ->/adfasdf ** this symlink should be marked (N) Nonexistent, rather than l d: ./fronk # ->/tmp L: ./spizzle # ->spizzle ** yay, 'find' identifies (self-referential) loops correctly [Buster] (correct behavior) $ lsb_release -cs buster $ mkdir symlink-test $ cd symlink-test $ ln -sf /tmp fronk $ ln -sf /adfasdf blonk $ ln -sf spizzle spizzle $ find . -xdev -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type l -printf "%Y: %p # ->%l \n" L: ./spizzle # ->spizzle d: ./fronk # ->/tmp N: ./blonk # ->/adfasdf ** this symlink is *correctly* marked (N) Nonexistent [Jessie] (correct behavior) $ mkdir symlink-test $ cd symlink-test $ ln -sf /tmp fronk $ ln -sf /adfasdf blonk $ ln -sf spizzle spizzle $ find . -xdev -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type l -printf "%Y: %p # ->%l \n" L: ./spizzle # ->spizzle N: ./blonk # ->/adfasdf ** this symlink is *correctly* marked (N) Nonexistent d: ./fronk # ->/tmp thanks, --stephen -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.13 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages findutils depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3 findutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages findutils suggests: ii mlocate 0.26-2 -- debconf-show failed