Package: kaffe Version: 2:1.1.5-3 Severity: important The number of symlinks that need to be dereferenced to get to the binary when /usr/bin/jar is the kaffe jar appears to be the exact maximum allowed by the kernel. Now my /usr is a symlink (something that can be considered allowed, as special provisions on our relative/absolute symlinks in packages were made just for this), and wow:
$ /usr/bin/jar bash: /usr/bin/jar: Too many levels of symbolic links I stumbled upon [1] which explains why the limit is so low and is not likely to be raised. But is there any reason to have 2 alternatives involved in accessing kaffe binaries ? Maybe we should ammend the policy to disallow such uses of the alternatives ? [1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9804.1/0250.html -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i586) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-k6 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=français (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages kaffe depends on: ii kaffe-jthreads 2:1.1.5-3 A green threads enabled version of ii kaffe-pthreads 2:1.1.5-3 A POSIX threads enabled version of kaffe recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratis http://ydirson.free.fr/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/>