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From: Junqian Gordon Xu <xjqian@gmail.com>
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Now there is no way to distinguish if the following is intensional by 
the package maintainer or an oversight without taking a closer look at 
the contents

NOTE: the following files were installed but not shipped in any package:
NOTE:   /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so
NOTE:   /usr/lib/.debug/libpython2.4.so.1.0
NOTE:   /usr/share/man/man1/python.1
NOTE:   /usr/bin/python2.4
NOTE:   /usr/bin/smtpd.py
NOTE:   /usr/bin/.debug/python

Maybe we should have something in insane.bb to take care of the 
intentionally unpackaged crusts. So we can do something like the 
following in a bb file to intensionally leave out some garbage unpackaged:

UNSHIPPED = "${libdir}/libpython2.4.so ${bindir}/smtpd.py"  #reason why 
not package/ship it

so during do_package or package_QA, it would show as

NOTE: the following files were installed but not shipped in any package:
NOTE:   /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so   UNSHIPPED #reason why not 
packaged/ship it
NOTE:   /usr/lib/.debug/libpython2.4.so.1.0
NOTE:   /usr/share/man/man1/python.1
NOTE:   /usr/bin/python2.4
NOTE:   /usr/bin/smtpd.py  UNSHIPPED #reason why not packaged/ship it
NOTE:   /usr/bin/.debug/python

Is SUNK a better word than UNSHIPPED?

Gordon