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

[Sandro]

Public bug reported:

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``.

** Affects: mlocate (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: plocate (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: mlocate (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Summary changed:

- Don't index /mnt/c in WSL
+ Don't index /mnt/{c,wsl} in WSL

** Description changed:

- plocate by default indexes /mnt/c/ in WSL which is the entire host
- filesystem which has a lot of files which you normally do not want to
- find with locate.
+ 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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Title:
  Don't index /mnt/{c,wsl} in WSL

Status in mlocate package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in plocate package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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