On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:55:50PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> What I'm suggesting is to grep for them in maintainer scripts. Any empty
> directory created in /etc and which isn't used in the maintainer scripts
> is likely to be a mistake.
You'd need to check binaries as well - quite a few t
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 14:08 -0500, Daniel Schepler a écrit :
> Some of the common false positives are /var/lib/ or /etc/, or
> subdirectories under one of those. Since often doesn't match the
> binary package name exactly, I don't see any easy way to detect these cases.
What I'm sugge
Daniel Schepler wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:20:17 pm Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Imho adding a lintian check for empty /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and
>> /usr/include directories (as created by dh-make) would be a good start.
>
> I wrote a lintian check implementing the conservative appr
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:20:17 pm Michael Biebl wrote:
> Imho adding a lintian check for empty /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and
> /usr/include directories (as created by dh-make) would be a good start.
I wrote a lintian check implementing the conservative approach, and submitted
a patch as
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 04:08:44 am Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 05:20 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> > Imho adding a lintian check for empty /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and
> > /usr/include directories (as created by dh-make) would be a good start.
>
>
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Maybe we could check for empty directories except for a number of common
> false positives (like the python-support directories or /var/games), and
> for the rest, grep in the maintainer scripts.
>
zope-common needs /var/lib/zope and the Zope packages come with somthing
* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071121 10:08]:
> Maybe we could check for empty directories except for a number of common
> false positives (like the python-support directories or /var/games), and
> for the rest, grep in the maintainer scripts.
And menu-methods (which cause a lot of false-
Hi,
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 05:20 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> Imho adding a lintian check for empty /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib and
> /usr/include directories (as created by dh-make) would be a good start.
Maybe we could check for empty directories except for a number of common
fals
Am Mittwoch, den 21.11.2007, 05:11 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> All of my packages listed there are false positives. What I noticed
> though, are a lot of packages, shipping empty /usr/sbin, /usr/bin/,
> /usr/lib/ or /usr/include directories.
> This directories, very likely, come from dh-make *.d
Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Obviously, a lot of these will be false positives, so I definitely won't file
> mass bugs based on this list without checking the full details first.
Using python-support also creates false-positives. python-support relies
on having /usr/share/python-support/packagename/
Hi
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:55:30 -0500
Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently noticed that many of the binary packages in Debian have
> unnecessary
> empty directories in them,
How do you detect that the directory is "unnecessary"? It can be for
example used for storing data i
Daniel Schepler schrieb:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 10:26:39 pm Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> On 21/11/2007, Daniel Schepler wrote:
>>> Obviously, a lot of these will be false positives, so I definitely
>>> won't file mass bugs based on this list without checking the full
>>> details first.
>> Maybe
Daniel Schepler schrieb:
> I recently noticed that many of the binary packages in Debian have
> unnecessary
> empty directories in them, so I wrote a script to find all packages with any
> empty directories. The results are too numerous to post on the list. The
> list by maintainer/uploader i
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 10:26:39 pm Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> On 21/11/2007, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > Obviously, a lot of these will be false positives, so I definitely
> > won't file mass bugs based on this list without checking the full
> > details first.
>
> Maybe suggesting a lintian check
On 21/11/2007, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Obviously, a lot of these will be false positives, so I definitely
> won't file mass bugs based on this list without checking the full
> details first.
Maybe suggesting a lintian check would be a good idea?
Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois
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