Bug#810367: [PATCH] depmod: Don't insert comment in modules.devname if otherwise empty

Lucas De Marchi lucas.de.marchi at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 16:06:02 GMT 2016


Hi Martin

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org> wrote:
> Hey Josh, Lucas,
>
> Lucas De Marchi [2016-01-11 10:43 -0200]:
>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>> > This allows tools to detect the file as empty, such as via systemd's
>> > ConditionFileNotEmpty.
>
> As pointed out on https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2301: Why
> does this file get created at all if it's going to be empty?

The only reason I can think of is to avoid breaking current programs
that depend on its existence since it is created since forever.

Lucas De Marchi




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