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Almost all GNU/Linux distributions include findutils, but only some of
them have a package maintainer who is a member of the mailing list.
Distributions don't often feed back patches to the
<bug-findutils@gnu.org> list, but on the other hand many of their
patches relate only to standards for file locations and so forth, and
are therefore distribution specific.  On an irregular basis I check the
current patches being used by one or two distributions, but the total
number of GNU/Linux distributions is large enough that we could not hope
to cover them all.

   Often, bugs are raised against a distribution's bug tracker instead
of GNU's.  Periodically (about every six months) I take a look at some
of the more accessible bug trackers to indicate which bugs have been
fixed upstream.

   Many distributions include both findutils and the slocate package,
which provides a replacement 'locate'.