ma, 2007-09-03 kello 16:04 +0200, Michael Banck kirjoitti: > 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.
FWIW, piuparts should be able to detect that. -- Never underestimate the power of a small tactical Lisp interpreter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
