Package: xterm Version: 6.8.2-5.1 Severity: normal xterm registers nonexistent files in update-alternatives. Every week I get the following message from a cron task:
/etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink It is, indeed -- see below. $ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 May 18 11:03 /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 18 11:03 /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz -> /usr/X11R6/man/man1/lxterm.1.gz $ ls -l /usr/X11R6/man/man1/lxterm.1.gz ls: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/lxterm.1.gz: No such file or directory $ ls /usr/X11R6/man/man1/lxterm.* /usr/X11R6/man/man1/lxterm.1x.gz $ dpkg -L xterm | grep man1 /usr/X11R6/man/man1 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/lxterm.1x.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man1/uxterm.1x.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man1/koi8rxterm.1x.gz $ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/X11R6/bin/lxterm /usr/bin/konsole - priority 20 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm - priority 20 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1.gz /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm - priority 20 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/uxterm.1.gz /usr/X11R6/bin/koi8rxterm - priority 20 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/koi8rxterm.1.gz /usr/X11R6/bin/lxterm - priority 30 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/lxterm.1.gz Current `best' version is /usr/X11R6/bin/lxterm. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R) Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libice6 6.8.2-5.1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsm6 6.8.2-5.1 X Window System Session Management ii libxaw8 6.8.2-5.1 X Athena widget set library ii libxext6 6.8.2-5.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 6.8.2-5.1 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxp6 6.8.2-5.1 X Window System printing extension ii libxpm4 6.8.2-5.1 X pixmap library ii libxrender1 1:0.8.3-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 6.8.2-5.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xlibs 6.8.2-5.1 X Window System client libraries m ii xlibs-data 6.8.2-5.1 X Window System client data -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]