* Carsten Hey [2012-04-26 10:36 +0200]:
> Whilst checking gtkorphan I noticed that it uses a colon to separate
> package names in the code that seems to be supposed to remove orphaned
> packages from deborphans --show-deps output. Back then when you wrote
> gtkorphan, a colon was a good choice as separator, but nowadays it is
> used to separate package names from the architecture, which can lead to
> undesirable results of such algorithms.
>
> The colon using code in gtkorphan_ops.pm is:
>
> my $orphaned = join(":",@orphaned);
> $orphaned=$orphaned.":";
>
> I think it should use for example "#" instead of ":".
I still think using a colon as separator is not that robust nowadays and
changing this might make gtkorphan more robust, regardless of what
I write below.
> Because the above is kind of fishy nowadays, I checked if the orphaned
> packages from deborphans --show-deps output are removed as seems to be
> intended. They are not removed, neither when used with a deborphan that
> prints arch suffixes, nor when used with one that does not print arch
> suffixes.
Since deborphan does not print orphaned packages if -d is used, I assume
the code does the opposite of what I thought at first sight. So this
part of the bug report seems to be invalid, although I think listing
orphaned packages in a tab "non-orphaned packages" is not what most
users would expect.
Please consider closing this bug if listing orphaned packages in the
list of non-orphaned packages is really intended.
Carsten
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