Hi, On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:57:38AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > The bug is that although the mpich-bin package uses > update-alternatives --install on postinst for all these files, it uses > update-alternatives --remove only on /usr/lib/mpich/bin/mpirun, leaving > a bunch of dangling symlinks... > > The reason why I'm mailing debian-devel is that I've seen this behavior > quite often in the past, in various packages. I hence guess there > should be some automatic way to check that a package correctly removes > the alternatives it provides.
Sounds like an issue lintian could catch, so I suggest filing a wishlist bug on lintian for that, if there is none already. thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]