Hi On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:55:30 -0500 Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.unipd.it> 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 in /var. > 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 is at > http://people.debian.org/~schepler/empty-dirs-maint.txt > and the full list of empty directories found is at > http://people.debian.org/~schepler/empty-dirs.txt . > > 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. I just checked my packages and all pure python modules using pycentral have empty /usr/lib. This will be probably very usual cause of these problems, just filed a bug for it. For the rest empty directories are intentional, so false positives. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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