Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: unison

I am using Ubuntu 8.10. I tried to install only the unison command-line
program (package version 2.27.57-1ubuntu1) and then check the manpage to
learn how to use it:

$ sudo aptitude install unison
...
$ man unison
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/unison.1.gz is a dangling symlink
No manual entry for unison
$ unison
bash: /usr/bin/unison: No such file or directory

It turns out the manpage and binary are linked through
/etc/alternatives, which contains links to "/usr/bin/unison-latest-
stable-gtk" and so on. These are presumably provided by unison-gtk, but
there is no dependency on unison-gtk, or vice versa.

$ apt-cache depends unison unison-gtk
unison
  Depends: libc6
 |Recommends: <ssh-client>
    openssh-client
  Recommends: openssh-client
  Conflicts: unison
unison-gtk
  Depends: libatk1.0-0
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libcairo2
  Depends: libglib2.0-0
  Depends: libgtk2.0-0
  Depends: libpango1.0-0
  Recommends: ssh-askpass
    gtk-led-askpass
    ksshaskpass
    ssh-askpass-fullscreen
    ssh-askpass-gnome
 |Recommends: <ssh-client>
    openssh-client
  Recommends: openssh-client
  Conflicts: unison-gtk

This may be related to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unison/+bug/49468, but I'm not
sure, so I am filing a new bug.

** Affects: unison (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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unison packages are broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313889
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