Package: cruft Version: 0.9.6-0.15 Followup-For: Bug #373708
I think your CAPITALS idea for explain scripts sounds sane. Debian packages are all (I'm pretty sure) lower case as a matter of Policy, so that should work out fine. However, why stop at explain scripts? Why not also roll this out to filter files as well? Maybe this is implied, but I wanted to make the recomendation explicit. I synchronize my explain scripts and filter files between two systems, because for the most part, there's a lot of overlap. However, this leads to the situation where there are package-based filter files in /etc/cruft/filters that are probably best skipped. Since cruft doesn't do that, I just wrote a simple bash script to do some sanity checks to make sure that filter files for uninstalled packages aren't really affecting the final results. Also, with respect to your idea that explain scripts can be smart, I wanted to point out that I found it useful to emulate the "may exist" semantics of the filter files with the explain scripts by performing an "echo $file" only if "test -e $file". This is kind of a cheap hack, and maybe it might be more convenient if there were three directories: may_exist_scripts/, must_exist_scripts/, and filters/. Note, filters files can not have "may_exist" semantics because they allow for globbing. In particular, I found this kind of "may_exist" emulation useful for all the compiled .pyc and .elc generated by auctex, python-support, emacs, etc. If I were the package maintainer, I might be able to specify which files get compiled a lot more rigorously, but as an end user, I have to just be just slightly less conservative -- some of those "postinst" scripts get pretty involved. Anyway, I'm pretty flexible on the specifics of these recommendations. I just wanted to throw some ideas out there and suggest how I might approach the design. Regards, Sukant Hajra -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-hole Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages cruft depends on: ii file 4.17-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries cruft recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
