Package: bittorrent Version: 3.4.2-3sarge0.1 Severity: normal Tags: sarge This is a duplicate of #285187 and possibly #311933. However, I thought having it recorded in the BTS that this bug exists in sarge even after it's closed in sid would be useful, since it causes a daily email from cron to the system administrator.
Basically, the man page for the bittorrent version of btcompletedir does not exist in the sarge version of the bittorrent package (3.4.2-3sarge0.1). However, the scripts that run update-alternatives on package installation automatically install slave links pointing to man pages for all the programs in the package regardless of whether the man page exists. Thus, a dangling symlink was installed for the man page for btcompletedir. This problem was remedied in bittorrent package version 3.4.2-4, but unfortunately, that did not make it into sarge. The commands below will download that package from http://snapshot.debian.net/ , and copy the btcompletedir man page provided in that package into place. Note that the commands below assume that you can write in your current working directory and that bittorrent_3.4.2-4_all.deb and bittorrent_3.4.2-4_all do not exist in that directory. wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2005/06/01/debian/pool/main/b/bittorrent/bittorrent_3.4.2-4_all.deb dpkg-deb -x bittorrent_3.4.2-4_all.deb bittorrent_3.4.2-4_all su # root privileges are required for the next command cp bittorrent_3.4.2-4_all/usr/share/man/man1/btcompletedir.bittorrent.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ exit # root privileges no longer needed rm -r bittorrent_3.4.2-4_all bittorrent_3.4.2-4_all.deb BTW, there's no way that this bug can be considered important enough for 3.1r1, is there? -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages bittorrent depends on: ii python 2.3.5-2 An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
