oldfind isn't documented

[Smylers]

findutils includes /usr/bin/oldfind, but the manpage doesn't give any indication as to what this is for.

/usr/share/man/man1/oldfind.1.gz is a symlink to find.1.gz, so typing man oldfind just displays find(1), which doesn't contain the text ‘oldfind’ anywhere in it.

The NEWS.gz file mentions it in the changes for version 4.4.1, but it should be documented in a less transient place. And as a user it doesn't help anyway: I don't know what fts() is, or under what circumstances I should use oldfind instead of find.

Please make man oldfind give information on what oldfind is for. Thanks.

[Alexander Lazarević (e11bits)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package findutils - 4.6.0-2

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findutils (4.6.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/watch: Scan both alpha.gnu.org and ftp.gnu.org.
  * Merge master to experimental:
    + Include stable changelog entries
    + Fix building twice in a row by deleting doc/stamp-vti, doc/version.texi,
      on clean. (Not necessary now, but might hit us if we patch the docs.)
  * Add more breaks with packages using find -perm +xx at runtime. For
    debconf switch from Breaks to Conflicts to be on the very safe side.
    Closes: #704879
  * Move Vcs-* from git/http to https.
  * Upload to unstable. Closes: #784168

 -- Andreas Metzler <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:57:07 +0100