Manoj Srivastava writes: > Package: fastjar > Version: 1:3.0.4-0pre020127 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Hi, > > My argument is that if one can't even install the package, > surely it is unusable?
sure, but I checked that it installs ... > > Setting up fastjar (3.0.4-0pre020127) ... > update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ja/man1/jar.1.gz.dpkg-tmp > a symlink to /etc/alternatives/jar.ja.1.gz: No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing fastjar (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 the gij problem should be the same. I don't have /usr/share/man/ja/man1, and it installed fine. In the postinst: update-alternatives --quiet --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/bin/fastjar 30 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/jar.1.gz jar.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/fastjar.1.gz Assuming this is not a gcc packaging problem ...
