Re: cruft(-ng) and dh-cruft: handling and registering of dynamic files

2022-11-05 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, Le dim. 23 oct. 2022 à 04:24, Paul Wise a écrit : > Thank you for your work on this, being able to register files generated > at install time by maintainer scripts or even at runtime by system > maintainence tools to particular packages is a very useful feature for > keeping all the files on

Re: cruft(-ng) and dh-cruft: handling and registering of dynamic files

2022-10-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2022-10-23 at 01:08 +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > This DebHelper works this way: > * the "debian/cruft" list merely register the glob patterns, > * and "debian/purge" list also an "rm -rf" stanza in postrm/purge. > > As a bonus there's now also a new "cpigs" command, working akin to

cruft(-ng) and dh-cruft: handling and registering of dynamic files

2022-10-22 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, I had been working on the cruft/cruft-ng package since 2014; there where a few setbacks along the years, like mlocate -> plocate & UsrMerge transitions, but it's alive and kicking, helping to find random lost files left behind by other packages and file bugs against those from time to time to