Debian Bug report logs - #478005
findutils: description of -perm /mode in man page fails to take into account functionality change

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Drake Wilson <drake@begriffli.ch>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: findutils: description of -perm /mode in man page fails to take into account functionality change

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:26:11 -0500

Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.0-2
Severity: minor

>From find(1), regarding the -perm /mode option: "If no permission bits
in mode are set, this test currently matches no files.  However, it
will soon be changed to match any file (the idea is to be more
consistent with the behaviour of -perm -000)."

That doesn't seem to be true anymore; the change has already been
made.  I believe https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?14748 has
information regarding that.  The man page doesn't seem to have been
updated.

(Never mind that this behavior is not, in fact, more consistent from a
mathematical perspective.  But oh well.)

   ---> Drake Wilson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

findutils recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #16 received at 478005-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>

To: 478005-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#478005: fixed in findutils 4.4.1-1

Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:02:13 +0000

Source: findutils
Source-Version: 4.4.1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
findutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

findutils_4.4.1-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.4.1-1.diff.gz
findutils_4.4.1-1.dsc
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.4.1-1.dsc
findutils_4.4.1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.4.1-1_i386.deb
findutils_4.4.1.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.4.1.orig.tar.gz
locate_4.4.1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/f/findutils/locate_4.4.1-1_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 478005@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> (supplier of updated findutils package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:13:14 +0200
Source: findutils
Binary: findutils locate
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.4.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Description: 
 findutils  - utilities for finding files--find, xargs
 locate     - maintain and query an index of a directory tree
Closes: 476218 478005 518120 525263
Changes: 
 findutils (4.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream maintenance release.
     + Drop 10_unnecessary_tempfile.dpatch, applied upstream.
     + Drops duplicate filesystem proc in PRUNEFS. Closes: #518120
     + Correct code for displaying \0 in find.1. Closes: #476218
     + Updates documentation for find -perm /mode. Closes: #478005
   * Standards-Version 3.8.1.
     + Add support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck.
   * Use filter instead of findstring when checking for
     DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt.
   * Fix typo "diagnositcs" in docs. Closes: #525263
   * Update copyright stanza in debian/copyright.
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