forcemerge 198220 433290 thanks On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Bruce Sass wrote: > This is a known wishlist item and should either be closed or merged with > bug #198220 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=198220)
Agreed and merged. My personal opinion is that dpkg -S should follow symlinks but not display it like a direct match. It should do something similar to diversions. For diversions we have: $ LANG=C dpkg -S /usr/bin/objdump diversion by binutils-multiarch from: /usr/bin/objdump diversion by binutils-multiarch to: /usr/bin/objdump.single binutils-multiarch, binutils: /usr/bin/objdump For symlinks we could have: $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/man non-packaged symlink to /usr/lib/man-db/man: /usr/bin/man man-db: /usr/lib/man-db/man It should do symlink resolution one by one. Which means that for alternatives we should have: $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/editor non-packaged symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor: /usr/bin/editor non-packaged symlink to /usr/bin/vim: /etc/alternatives/editor non-packaged symlink to /etc/alternatives/vim: /usr/bin/vim non-packaged symlink to /usr/bin/vim.full: /etc/alternatives/vim vim-full: /usr/bin/vim.full Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
