Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-05-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:21:35PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:48:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Both cases would need data for multiple archs. For the second case if identical files are in all foo_arch.deb then those should be in foo-common_all.deb. A

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:09:06PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:04:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Will that also detect files in multiarch packages that are not identical? No, it does not do this at the moment. The main reason here is that currently only

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-05-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:48:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Both cases would need data for multiple archs. For the second case if identical files are in all foo_arch.deb then those should be in foo-common_all.deb. A dedup across archs instead of across packages. Thanks for

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 04:48:20PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Paul Wise wrote: For duplicate file detection, there is now the Debian duplication detector (still importing the archive): http://dedup.debian.net/ This will soon be linked to from the PTS for

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-04-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:04:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Will that also detect files in multiarch packages that are not identical? No, it does not do this at the moment. The main reason here is that currently only amd64 is processed. Support for multiple architectures would take a

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Paul Wise wrote: For duplicate file detection, there is now the Debian duplication detector (still importing the archive): http://dedup.debian.net/ This will soon be linked to from the PTS for packages that share a significant amount of data. Here is an

detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, recent discussion (e.g. w.r.t. jquery.js) has shown that Contents files as is are not really suitable as a source for reporting bugs. On my side I'd like to do further analysis on symlink vs. directory conflicts and conffile takeovers (that may possibly corrupt the dpkg database). What would

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
For duplicate file detection, there is now the Debian duplication detector (still importing the archive): http://dedup.debian.net/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:54:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: For duplicate file detection, there is now the Debian duplication detector (still importing the archive): http://dedup.debian.net/ Neat! Helmut, can you please add a footer to every dedup.d.n page stating: who is in charge of the

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
Since Paul Wise advertised dedup.debian.net already, I have a few more bits. This was an afternoon proof-of-concept thingy that kind of accidentally got a debian.net pointer, but so be it. It seems to be somewhat useful. The service basically records checksums of all regular files in Debian sid

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 03:48:20PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: The software is available in git://murkel.subdivi.de/~helmut/debian-dedup.git, but currently lacks any documentation. (Hey it was just a proof-of-concept, right?) All data is obtained by examining binary packages and stored in a

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Gevers
[You set mail-follow-up to debian-devel, so here it goes to the list.] On 21-02-13 15:48, Helmut Grohne wrote: So yeah, bug reports, comments and of course patches are welcome. This indeed looks very useful. However, I don't think it is really useful to trigger on common changelog and copyright

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13129 March 1977, Helmut Grohne wrote: This was an afternoon proof-of-concept thingy that kind of accidentally got a debian.net pointer, but so be it. It seems to be somewhat useful. The service basically records checksums of all regular files in Debian sid main and provides a web

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 07:05:08PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: This indeed looks very useful. However, I don't think it is really useful to trigger on common changelog and copyright files from the same source package as they indeed usually are the same, which is fine of course. Answering this