Re: [PATCH/RFC] dpkg-shlibdeps: ignore shell scripts
* Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> [100423 07:58]:
> > 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.
Except those things should not appear in a binary directory. So there is
still reason to refuse those without refusing script checking.
(That's not an argument for or against checking for scripts, just an
argument against the argument at hand. I personally would prefer to at
least have an option to error out when getting something without
symbols)
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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