On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 3:29 PM Andreas Hasenack <andreas@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that `dpkg -V` does not take into consideration potential
> exclusions defined in its configuration.
>
> An ubuntu-minimal image, for example, has this:
> ```
> $ cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/excludes
> # Drop all man pages
> path-exclude=/usr/share/man/*
>
> # Drop all translations
> path-exclude=/usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo
>
> # Drop all documentation ...
> path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/*
>
> # ... except copyright files ...
> path-include=/usr/share/doc/*/copyright
>
> # ... and Debian changelogs
> path-include=/usr/share/doc/*/changelog.Debian.*
> ```
>
> Which results in a lot of noise when `dpkg -V` is run:
> ```
> $ dpkg -V | head
> ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/python3-pkg-resources/pkg_resources.txt.gz
> ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/fonts-ubuntu-console/README
> ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-bin/NEWS.Debian.gz
> ??5?????? /usr/share/man/man8/cryptsetup-reencrypt.8.gz
> ??5?????? /usr/share/man/man8/cryptsetup.8.gz
> ??5?????? /usr/share/man/man8/integritysetup.8.gz
> ??5?????? /usr/share/man/man8/veritysetup.8.gz
> ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/python3-distutils/README.Debian
> ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/libip4tc2/NEWS.Debian.gz
> ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/libksba8/AUTHORS
> ...
> ```
>
> Shouldn't `dpkg -V` take the path-{exclude,include} into
> consideration? Is this just a bug (which I can file), or was it a
> conscious decision?
IMO this is just a dpkg bug, observable on Sid, too.
This is not the only related dpkg bug, see for example:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859646
Cheers,
Balint
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