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has caused the Debian Bug report #919844,
regarding changetrack: "find2perl" is missing and thus breaks filename patterns
prefixed with "@"
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Package: changetrack
Version: 4.7-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch upstream
Dear Maintainer,
changetrack allows the specification of patterns for "find" to be used
in /etc/changetrack. A use case is the exclusion of specific files
below /etc/ from the change tracking.
Example (excluding daily updated revocation lists):
@/etc/ -type f ! -name 'foo*.crl'
The above pattern requires the tool "find2perl", which was shipped along
with perl. In perl 5.22.0 the tool "find2perl" was removed, due to
being released separately via CPAN.
(see /usr/share/perl/5.28.1/pod/perl5220delta.pod)
Thus changetrack fails to work due to the absence of "find2perl" since
Stretch, if a filename pattern with the "@" prefix is configured.
The attached patch fixes the issue by using "find" instead of
"find2perl" (the latter was supposed to be a faster alternative to
"find").
Cheers,
Lars
--- /usr/bin/changetrack.orig 2016-12-30 01:58:25.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/changetrack 2019-01-20 04:41:55.154600278 +0100
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
my $rest = substr($filename,1);
# execute as find command
- @files = split '\0', `find2perl $rest -print0 |perl`;
+ @files = split '\0', `find $rest -print0`;
}
else
{
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: changetrack
Source-Version: 4.7-10
Done: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
changetrack, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
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 [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[email protected]> (supplier of updated changetrack
package)
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:29:17 -0300
Source: changetrack
Architecture: source
Version: 4.7-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[email protected]>
Closes: 919844
Changes:
changetrack (4.7-10) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* QA upload.
* debian/control:
- Bumped Standards-Version to 4.7.3.
- Removed no longer needed "Priority: optional" field.
- Removed no longer needed "Rules-Requires-Root: no" field.
* debian/copyright: updated packaging copyright years.
* debian/patches/:
- hostname.diff: renamed to 01_hostname.patch.
- manpage.diff: renamed to 02_manpage.patch.
- 03_fix-find.patch: created to change from deprecated find2perl to
perl. Thanks to Lars Kruse <[email protected]>. (Closes: #919844)
* debian/watch: migrated to version 5.
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