[Popcon-developers] nofiles

[Alain Schroeder]

Am Dienstag, den 12.06.2007, 18:10 +0100 schrieb Kai Hendry:
> I've noticed that wordpress, webpy & flup comes up as nofiles. Which
> isn't cool for Enrico's ept-cache.
> 
> I guess I've made a mistake in my packages, or?
> 
> I am at Debconf so we can discuss this in person if you like. Kind regards,

/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/README.gz
<<<
NOFILES means that no files in the package seemed to be programs, so
<atime>, <ctime>, and <mru-program> are invalid.
>>>

Actually imo this "feature" is useless nowadays, because it fails in
case of web-applications and also if it find an executable it'll record
ANY file.

E.g. the package libc6-dev has binaries in /usr/bin, but the reported
files are (mostly?) header files or .a files. Similar with
linux-kernel-header, while I am even missing the binary there.
(/usr.*/bin matches though: /usr/include/linux/binfmts.h)

Other candidates:
 * perl-modules
 * linux-header-<uname -v>
 * perl-base
 * libqt4-dev
 * many more [...]

Bye,
   Alain