James Youngman 89ec0211ce updatedb: Remove support for the old pre-4.0 database format.
* locate/testsuite/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST_EXP): Remove
locate.gnu/old_prefix.exp and locate.gnu/oldformat.exp.
(EXTRA_DIST_XO): Remove locate.gnu/old_prefix.xo and
locate.gnu/oldformat.xo.
* doc/find.texi (Database Formats): Remove the warning about old
versions of locate failing to read the LOCATE02 database format.
Mention that the slocate database format is also supported.
(Old Database Format): Point out that updatedb will no longer
produce the old format.
(Invoking updatedb): Remove mention of the --old-format option.
Remove mention of --dbformat=old.
(Long File Name Bugs with Old-Format Databases): Remove this
section.
* locate/updatedb.sh: remove support for --dbformat=old and
--old-format.
(checkbinary): Don't look for the bigram and code binaries.
* locate/updatedb.1: Explain that support for the old database
format has been removed from updatedb and will shortly be removed
from locate also.  Remove the documentation for the removed
option --old-format and mention of --dbformat-old.
* locate/code.c: remove since this program was only used to
generate old-format databases.
* locate/bigram.c: remove since this program was only used to
generate old-format databases.
* po/POTFILES.in: Remove bigram.c and code.c.
* locate/word_io.c (putword): Remove this function, since it was
only needed for making old-format databases.
* find/find.1 (NON-BUGS): Don't mention bigram.c and code.c in the
example.
* locate/locatedb.h: Remove declaration of putword, which has been
deleted.
* locate/Makefile.am (libexec_PROGRAMS): Remove bigram and code
(since they were only used to generate old-format databases).
(updatedb): Don't substitute @bigram@ and @code@.
(code_SOURCES): Delete.
* locate/testsuite/locate.gnu/old_prefix.exp: delete test case for
the old database format.
* locate/testsuite/locate.gnu/old_prefix.xo: Likewise.
* locate/testsuite/locate.gnu/oldformat.exp: Likewise.
* locate/testsuite/locate.gnu/oldformat.xo: Likewise.
* TODO: manpages for bigram and code are no longer needed.
* NEWS: Mention these changes.
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