freebsd stable - Sep 2017 - find(1)'s "newer" primary expression gives wrong results with symbolic links

Hello,

utilizing find(1)'s 'newer' primary expression is broken with
symbolic links (for a very long time).

Anyone who is using find for timestamp comparings should pay special attention
regarding symbolic links.
The man page states for "-P" (which ist the default), that ?the file
information and file type (see stat(2)) returned for each symbolic link to be
those of the link itself?

That's not the case, -P doesn't work as expected, see
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222698
for details.
Hope someone with better C skills will find the root of the problem as soon as
possible.  I'm trying to find myself, but I'm happyly proven not to be
the fastest ;-)

-harry