Bug#944968: popularity-contest: Program accesses internal dpkg database

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 08:55:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:27:56 +0100 Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
> 
> While it would take a bit of restructuring / refactoring, I think it
> would be possible to use a single dpkg-query for everything and still be
> able to process the data in a "streaming" fashion.
> 
> As an example, using the following:
> 
>   dpkg-query --show \
>     --showformat='${status} ${package}\n${db-fsys:Files}\n\n'

Hello Guillem,

I am trying to implement this to see how well this perform.
Unfortunately it seems it does not provide a stable interface across release,
but maybe I am doing something wrong.

dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status} ${package}\n${db-fsys:Files}\n\n'|head -n1

On buster:
deinstall ok config-files 0ad

On sid:
(Lecture de la base de données... 134812 fichiers et répertoires déjà
installés.)

Cheers,
Bill.