[Popcon-developers] Bug#457432: popularity-contest: Please include /lib/.+/ in the search space

[Bill Allombert]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:32:35PM +0100, Johan Walles wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.42
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Please include /lib/.+/ in the search space.  This makes Gnome applets which put files only in 
> /usr/lib/appletname/... get proper statistics, as well as kernel-module only packages which put
> files in /lib/modules/... .

> Since only /lib and /usr/lib themselves, but not their subdirectories are scanned by ldconfig,
> this doesn't add any false positives for libraries.

This assume only ldconfig is playing with /usr/lib. Unfortunately this
is not true, for example files under /usr/lib/locale/ are automatically
generated, and so are some python files in /usr/share/, etc.

The popularity-contest server use dependencies to get usage of package 
with <NO FILES>: they get as much usage as the packages that depend on
them, so it is not necessary to have files for all packages.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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