Re: unowned files and directories
On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:46:42 +0200, Thorsten wrote:
But I'm a bit unsure what to do with the results. Filing bugs
likely
would be huge amount of work as well as and never-ending task for a
small gain.
http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/dircheck-remote.py
Example usage:
./dircheck-remote.py -r rawhide -n ^vtk
./dircheck-remote.py -r rawhide
Options? Just ignore? Or will the automatic test scripts QA iirc
plans
to set up check for things like that in the future?
Different strategy. Also to raise awareness of the problem. Focus on those
unowned directories
- which bear a risk of breaking tarball compilation
(e.g. old unowned empty versioned API directories which confuse
tarball configure scripts, not limited to %_includedir),
- which look like files might be misplaced
(e.g. unowned directories in suspicious paths),
- which look like missing subpackage dependencies
(e.g. "yum install foo-something" doesn't lead to working software
since "foo" is not installed automatically)
- which pile up usability crap, such as empty versioned %docdirs. [1]
[1] The latter is annoying. It breaks tab completion in /usr/share/doc
(but also makes it harder to browse documentation with graphical file
managers). Additionally, some packagers tend to use %doc in almost every
subpackage, and I'm not sure they are aware of the consequences.