Public bug reported:
This problem occurs on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (bionic).
It does not occur on Ubuntu 19.04 (disco)
The "find" and "xargs" command are provided by a patched version of the
GNU findutils package. The current version is based on release 4.6.0, but
the "--version" option shows a version number of "4.7.0-git".
As you can see, the "/usr/bin/find" executable is dated Nov 5 2017.
findutils release 4.7.0 was released just yesterday, Aug 29 2017.
Ubuntu 19.04 has findutils 4.6.0+git+20190209-2, and "find --version"
shows "find (GNU findutils) 4.6.0.225-235f".
Expected: "findutils --version" shows a version number based on 4.6.0
Actual: "findutils --version" shows a version number based on 4.7.0,
which had not yet been released
Demonstration:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ apt-cache policy findutils
findutils:
Installed: 4.6.0+git+20170828-2
Candidate: 4.6.0+git+20170828-2
Version table:
*** 4.6.0+git+20170828-2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ ls -l /usr/bin/find
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 238080 Nov 5 2017 /usr/bin/find
$ /usr/bin/find --version
find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS(FTS_CWDFD)
CBO(level=2)
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** Affects: findutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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findutils shows wrong version number
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