Bug#750863: Please include package contents information
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 08:14:20PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> 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
Sure, though that's not correlated by version and package metadata the
way UDD is. But yeah, that use case is much lower priority for me than
the metadata issue (user/group/mode).
- Josh Triplett
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