[Popcon-developers] Bug#457432: popularity-contest: Please include /lib/.+/ in the search space
Bill Allombert
Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Mon Jan 14 20:49:24 UTC 2008
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:32:35PM +0100, Johan Walles wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.42
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Please include /lib/.+/ in the search space. This makes Gnome applets which put files only in
> /usr/lib/appletname/... get proper statistics, as well as kernel-module only packages which put
> files in /lib/modules/... .
> Since only /lib and /usr/lib themselves, but not their subdirectories are scanned by ldconfig,
> this doesn't add any false positives for libraries.
This assume only ldconfig is playing with /usr/lib. Unfortunately this
is not true, for example files under /usr/lib/locale/ are automatically
generated, and so are some python files in /usr/share/, etc.
The popularity-contest server use dependencies to get usage of package
with <NO FILES>: they get as much usage as the packages that depend on
them, so it is not necessary to have files for all packages.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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