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Re: [PATCH/RFC] dpkg-shlibdeps: ignore shell scripts



Hi,

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
> > What is wrong with excluding only scripts, those files begining with a
> > shebang token? The test for this is easy and you still get errors for
> > other files that objdump doesn't understand.
> 
> Yes, I wonder the same thing.  What would be the harm in making
> dpkg-shlibdeps always ignore files starting with a #! line?

If we go down that path, then I would have no reason to refuse patches to
ignore images, known document formats, any textual file, etc. This is
useless bloat.

I'm all for smartness but reasoned smartness. :-) In this case, we know
what we're looking after, no need to use a blacklist approach.

Cheers,
-- 
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