Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:09:06PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:04:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Will that also detect files in multiarch packages that are not identical?
> 
> No, it does not do this at the moment. The main reason here is that
> currently only amd64 is processed. Support for multiple architectures
> would take a bit more to implement and vastly more resources on the
> machine hosting dedup.d.n.
> 
> > Or files in foo_arch.deb that should be in foo-common_all.deb?
> 
> I do not yet understand what kind of algorithm you imagine here. In any
> case dedup.d.n does not do such a thing at the moment. In addition a
> task that operates one one binary package is likely better suited for
> lintian.
> 
> Helmut

Both cases would need data for multiple archs.

For the second case if identical files are in all foo_arch.deb then
those should be in foo-common_all.deb. A dedup across archs instead of
across packages.

MfG
	Goswin