On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:59:35AM -0700, [email protected] 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
