On 2018-10-29 18:05, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 05:48:21PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Since the bug is probably present in all old findutils versions >> (including archived releases) and therefore not getting fixed >> *everywhere*, > > I'm a firm believer in not carry compatibility code for ever. piuparts > should be able to test archived releases, but it doesnt have to run on > it.
The script using "find" and triggering the error is run inside the chroot ... But in this case we have two choices that are theoretically equivalent and I would consider neither to be a workaround. It just happens that one of them exposes a bug and the other one therefore works "better". Andreas

