Re: man-db's cron warns about dangling symlink
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]
Re: man-db's cron warns about dangling symlink
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]
Re: man-db's cron warns about dangling symlink
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. There is none about this in particular, but #53490 (second-oldest bug against lintian) is similar. Both require parsing the command-line arguments of update-alternatives, which is why it's not been done before now. Patches welcome. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
