Stefano Zacchiroli ha scritto: > Is the code you used to detect this available somewhere? I wonder mainly > how did you check if the packages are metapackages/transitional. If it > is something you consider reliable, it would be worth to turn your code > into a lintian check, so that we avoid in the future re-introducing this > kind of bugs. Well, "code" is located on lintian.debian.org/~dktrkranz/empty.sh, it's a very simple shell script which declares a package being empty if all of the following conditions are met: * package does not ship files outside of /usr/share/doc/$pkg * package does not have subdirectories in its /usr/share/doc dir * package does not have a "blacklist" word in its description: - meta - transition - dummy - dependency package - empty package - virtual package After that, I manually sorted resulting packages to remove notable false positives, so it's definitely not reliable enough to provide full automated reports yet, but I can work to define improved conditions. -- .''`. : :' : Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org> `. `' `-
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