On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:28:46PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 18/03/15 at 13:21 -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 08:14:20PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:59:35AM -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > > > And I'd like to search for things like filename conflicts and compare > > > > them to package metadata; for instance, do packages that ship the same > > > > filename conflict or not, and do the versions of the conflict match the > > > > versions that ship the same file? (That won't be perfect, since it > > > > can't take diversions into account, which are unfortunately still > > > > programmatic in maintainer scripts rather than being declarative.) > > > > > > these could be found by inspecting the Contents file - this is how it > > > is done in [1]. This is today integrated in piuparts, code to find > > > packages sharing a path name can be found in [2]. > > > > > > [1] https://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html > > > [2] https://alioth.debian.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=30965 > > > > Sure, though that's not correlated by version and package metadata the > > way UDD is. But yeah, that use case is much lower priority for me than > > the metadata issue (user/group/mode). > > Wouldn't this one be better solved as a lintian check?
The conflicts item? Lintian doesn't always have multiple packages around for a simultaneous check. The user/group/mode item? No, I'm not looking to write a specific lintian check there; I'm trying to evaluate usage of specific users/groups/modes as part of trying to find better ways to handle them. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
