On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:00:28PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 03:18:01AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > # Now: See if it is in this package. See if it is in any other package.
> > sub searchdir {
> > my $dir = shift;
> > if(opendir(DIR, $dir)) {
> > my @dirents = readdir(DIR);
> > closedir(DIR);
> > for (@dirents) {
> > if ( -f "$dir/$_/DEBIAN/shlibs" ) {
> > push(@curshlibs, "$dir/$_/DEBIAN/shlibs");
> > next;
> > } elsif ( $_ !~ /^\./ && -d "$dir/$_" && ! -l "$dir/$_" ) {
> > &searchdir("$dir/$_");
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > This function apparently isn't content to look for
> > debian/$pkg/DEBIAN/shlibs; it feels a need to look for things like
> > debian/xfonts-75dpi-transcoded/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB24-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz/DEBIAN/shlibs
> > as well.
> To account for more interesting ideas that maintainers could have I
> would propose the following compromise: Replace the elsif line with
> } elsif ( ! -e "$dir/$_/DEBIAN" && !~ /^\./ && -d "$dir/$_" && ! -l "$dir/$_"
> ) {
> This at least eliminates the search within the packages that have no
> shlibs file which should be the major cause for massive recursion.
Could you comment on what "interesting ideas" maintainers would have that
are worth supporting here? :)
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