Package: checkinstall Version: 1.6.1-8 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
I guess this is result of filesystem translation not working properly with the newer kernels as reported previously. When checkinstall is doing "Compressing man pages", it messes up the real man pages in /usr/share/man etc by re-compressing all man pages files (harmless, though) and rendering symbolic links to just an invalid .gz link. :-( Note: TRANSLATE=0 set and checkinstall invoked with root previlege. A possible work around is to disable compressing man pages by setting COMPRESS_MAN=0. But it appears that files left by checkinstall in /usr/share/man etc are not cleaned up for the case when INSTALL=0 is set. Regards, ST -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'gutsy') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages checkinstall depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools ii file 4.25-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii findutils 4.4.0-2 utilities for finding files--find, ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries Versions of packages checkinstall recommends: ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util Versions of packages checkinstall suggests: ii gettext 0.17-3 GNU Internationalization utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
