On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 10:27 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > (how) is that technically different to dangling symlinks? Those are detected > already, over 8000 packages are affected.
Hmm, I guess they are just a subset of dangling symlinks. Feel free to close this bug report then and sorry for the noise. Or maybe turn it into a check for consistency between /etc/alternatives the update-alternatives database in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives? I'd be surprised if it happened but someone might try to manually fiddle with /ect/alternatives. > About your extented wish to do this for installs with recommends and without, > I'd first like to see #604406 fixed and then gain support for libeatmydata, > before doing so. My reason for wanting support for handling recommends was #614716, which only shows up without them. > Help is certainly very much welcome, hacking piuparts is fun & easy, it's how > I learned python :-) :) I try not to get involved in QA stuff any more, last time I did it just made me depressed. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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