[Popcon-developers] Bug#457432: Bug#457432: popularity-contest: Please include /lib/.+/ in the search space

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Bill Allombert]
> This assume only ldconfig is playing with /usr/lib. Unfortunately this
> is not true,

I thought the only problem was updates that happened regularly, as in
from cron.  I am only aware of ldconfig and manual page indexing being
called from cron and reading files in a way that disturb popcon votes.

> for example files under /usr/lib/locale/ are automatically
> generated,

The only ones I know about are not generated by cron byt during
package updates or by the sysadmin, and none of the files generated by
locale-gen are owned by any packages.

> and so are some python files in /usr/share/, etc.

Are you thinking of the .pyc files?  The .pyc files are as far as I
know only updated during package install, and neither are owned by any
package.

Both of these examples should not affect the popcon votes, as far as I
know, and I considered both when deciding to add the patch.  The only
think I was unsure about was the ldconfig update, and I checked it to
verify that it was not affecting this change.  Did I overlook
something?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen