2014-02-15 5:47 GMT+01:00 Dave Steele <dste...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, 3 May 2011, Agustin Martin wrote: >>On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 05:05:09AM +0200, J G Miller wrote: >>> Package: dictionaries-common >>> Version: 1.10.6 >>> Severity: normal >>> >>> The dictionaries-common package contains two dangling symbolic links >>> in /usr/lib/ispell >>> >>> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2011-03-28 16:16 default.aff -> >>> /etc/dictionaries-common/default.aff >>> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2011-03-28 16:16 default.hash -> >>> /etc/dictionaries-common/default.hash >>> >>> apt-file search indicates that no packages contains these files. >> >>Thanks for the info. >> >>That is a design choice, those symlinks will point to default ispell >>dictionary if ispell dictionaries are installed. Same happens with >>/etc/dictionaries-common/words. >> >>Creating those symlinks when needed and removing them from postrm is >>in my TODO list, but somewhere low. So, I am leaving this bug report open >>until I can work on that. >> >>Regards, >> >>-- >>Agustin > > Hi Agustin, > > On the subject of TODO list priorities, note that the Piupart broken symlink > test is likely to be elevated soon, returning an error result rather than a > warning.
Hi David, While I really appreciate your work on following the bug report, I really think this is nonsensic escalation. The original problem is harmless, my time is limited, and policy and RC errors shoud deal with RC errors, not with harmless stuff just because someone decided to write it in stone. There are more important things than this. > There are currently over one thousand packages which depend on > dictionaries-common. The logs for each contain warnings about the > symlinks left by the dependency. Once the change is made to the test, > those packages are subject to becoming untestable in piuparts. Sorry again if I look unpolite, I am just after lunch and a bit overheated. Debian policy must be stated directly by Debian policy, not indirectly by whatever package requirements. pipuarts is not Debian policy, so I'd personally consider this a bug in piuparts itself. That said, will deal with this when I have time and do not have more important things to deal with. For now, I consider https://bugs.debian.org/737515 and some of the extra stuff included in the experimental release (like avoiding debconf as only registry) way more important than this bug report. I also consider that simplifying part of the devel code is more important than this, that is my current priority list. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
