[Bug 1947877] Re: Don't index /mnt/{c,wsl} in WSL

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: mlocate (Ubuntu Jammy)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Don't index /mnt/{c,wsl} in WSL

Status in mlocate package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in plocate package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in mlocate source package in Jammy:
  Confirmed
Status in plocate source package in Jammy:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  plocate by default indexes /mnt/{c,wsl}/ in WSL. /mnt/c contains the
  entire host filesystem which has includes your windows installation
  and all installed programs which you normally do not want to find with
  locate. Also /mnt/wsl is more or less a link to your wsl root
  filesystem which can be found under / already.

  To ignore it ``/mnt/c`` needs to be added to ``PRUNEPATHS`` under
  /etc/updatedb.conf``.

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