[Popcon-developers] nofiles

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:29:39PM +0200, Alain Schroeder wrote:
> 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 [...]

Actually, perl modules, static library, headers files and kernel 
are also taken into account.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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