On Fri, 06 May 2011, Ondřej Surý wrote: > >> If you want this fixed, just ping me, it's easy to add something like > >> "&& (....->name[namelen] == \0 or ...->name[namelen] == '/')", and > >> I'll fix it at both places. > > > > Ah nice catch! I've pushed a fix for this (commit > > 2c9a342dc4e1ad3e9e58ac89957b9068664d1930). Thanks! > > Cool. Also you're right that you don't need to check for \0 in > dir_is_used_by_pkg, but I am unsure if you can do the same check (/foo > not matching /foo in other package) is dir_is_used_by_others. In fact I > think it's wrong... If two packages contains /var/foo/bar/ and both > depend on this directory to run (f.e. creating files there on the first > run or only when issuing 'dump' command, etc...), you will remove it on > first package removal if it's empty thus breaking the second package.
dir_is_used_by_others does not check the filename in the same way, in fact it iterates the list of packages associated to the namemode. So the problem you mention doesn't exist at all. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
