Bug#750863: Please include package contents information
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:59:35AM -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> And I'd like to search for things like filename conflicts and compare
> them to package metadata; for instance, do packages that ship the same
> filename conflict or not, and do the versions of the conflict match the
> versions that ship the same file? (That won't be perfect, since it
> can't take diversions into account, which are unfortunately still
> programmatic in maintainer scripts rather than being declarative.)
these could be found by inspecting the Contents file - this is how it
is done in [1]. This is today integrated in piuparts, code to find
packages sharing a path name can be found in [2].
[1] https://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html
[2] https://alioth.debian.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=30965
-Ralf.
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