reassign 141661 apt-utils
thanks

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:25:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> If a package installs a directory but no files within that directory,
> that directory doesn't get listed in the Contents files. I noticed that
> a few packages that just install directories in /usr/doc slipped through
> the scripts I had to scan for such things, which only checked Contents -
> for instance, doc-linux-zh-s has /usr/doc/HOWTO, /var/cache/man isn't
> listed despite being part of man-db, etc.
> 
> This might be a bit delicate, as we probably don't need to list shared
> directories that actually contain files, otherwise the entry for /usr
> would get a bit out of control!

We use unmodified apt-ftparchive for generating Contents.gz files, so
this wishlist should be dealt with in apt-utils (if it's still relevant,
but I believe it is).

Sorry it took a little while to reassign,
--Jeroen

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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