It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils

Debian maintainer history: The original package was put together by
Ian Murdock <[email protected]>, afterwards Kevin Dalley
<[email protected]> took over. 2003-07 Andreas Metzler
<[email protected]> followed.

Upstream Authors:
* GNU find was written by Eric Decker <[email protected]>,
with enhancements by David MacKenzie <[email protected]>,
Jay Plett <[email protected]>,
and Tim Wood <[email protected]>.
The idea for -print0 and xargs -0 came from
Dan Bernstein <[email protected]>.
Improvements have been made by James Youngman <[email protected]>.

* GNU xargs
was originally written by Mike Rendell, with enhancements by David
MacKenzie. Modifications by James Youngman Dmitry V. Levin

* GNU locate and its associated utilities were originally
written by James Woods, with enhancements by David MacKenzie, James Youngman
and Bas van Gompel.

Upstream's AUTHORS lists these major contributors:
Eric B. Decker
Michael Rendell
David J. MacKenzie
Jim Meyering
Tim Wood
Kevin Dalley <[email protected]>
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
James Youngman <[email protected]>
Jay Plett
Paul Sheer
Dmitry V. Levin
Bas van Gompel
Eric Blake <[email protected]>

Current upstream maintainer is James Youngman <[email protected]>.

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