On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 19:04 -0400, Anthony Canino wrote:
> I feel that I am missing something here. Does popularity-contest
> track shared library usage?
TBH, I'm not sure, hopefully Bill can answer this properly, but:
Looking at the popcon client code it seems that this part of the code
is where the issue arises, files matching /lib/.+-.+-.+/ are ignored
and I think this has the side effect of ignoring all shared libraries.
next unless (
( m{/bin/|/sbin/|/lib/.+/|^/usr/games/|\.[ah]$|\.pm$|\.php$|^/boot/System\.map-}
&& ! m{/lib/.+-.+-.+/} && ! m{^/usr/lib/mime/packages/}
|| defined $mapped{$_} )
&& -f $_);
Digging a bit further I see that this was changed in version 1.55:
- Reject files in subdirectories of */lib/<triplet> since they are read
by ldconfig now.
So it sounds like shared library usage is not tracked because ldconfig
touches all libraries on the system during upgrades. I wonder if this
still holds with modern Debian systems and if we should revert this?
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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