[bug #46438] Please release a non-alpha version of recent findutils

[Dave Chiluk]

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                 Summary: Please release a non-alpha version of recent
findutils
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: chiluk
            Submitted on: Fri 13 Nov 2015 08:51:46 PM GMT
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.5.14
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

The last stable version of find 4.4.2 was released 
Sat May 16 17:01:50 2009 +0100

That makes the current stable release more than 6 years old.

Now, I know that some distributions have ignored the findutils communities
warning of labeling the 4.5 series as unstable *(opensuse, fedora, centos);
but at least debian, ubuntu, and arch have so far decided to respect the find
maintainers definitions of 4.5 as alpha.

So if 4.5 is really production ready, can you please release a new blessed
-stable version.  Releasing a new -stable would be very timely as it might
even be able to be picked up in the next Ubuntu LTS release which is currently
in development.

This would resolve a number of outstanding ubuntu bugs that have fixes in 4.5,
but whose fixes do not satisfy the requirements for a stable fix
*(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/findutils/+bug/1347788).

Now if it's not ready, by all means keep it -alpha. 

Thank you,
Dave.




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