Package: gnuplot-qt Version: 5.0.5+dfsg1-6+deb9u1 Severity: normal Dear Gnuplot maintainer,
Today, while searching for a nice packaging example of how to use the Debian alternatives system (in a package) I noticed that gnuplot-qt had three broken symlinks in /etc/alternatives. I believe this stretch system began as a squeeze installation, or was possibly installed early in wheezy's freeze. The first two broken symlinks appear to be lint resulting from a transition: /etc/alternatives/gnuplot5: broken symbolic link to /usr/bin/gnuplot5-qt /etc/alternatives/gnuplot5.1.gz: broken symbolic link to [presumably /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot5-qt.1.gz] and this one is also broken: /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot5.1.gz: broken symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/gnuplot5.1.gz however, "man gnuplot" works as expected because: /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot.1.gz: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/gnuplot.1.gz /etc/alternatives/gnuplot.1.gz: symbolic link to /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot-qt.1.gz Maybe it's fixed in sid? Regards, Nicholas -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-debug APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.65.20180820 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnuplot-qt depends on: ii gnuplot-data 5.0.5+dfsg1-6+deb9u1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libedit2 3.1-20160903-3 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libgd3 2.2.4-2+deb9u2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-8.1+b2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.5-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.5-1 ii libqt5core5a 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5gui5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5network5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5printsupport5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5svg5 5.7.1~20161021-2+b2 ii libqt5widgets5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libwxbase3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-4 ii libwxgtk3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-4 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 gnuplot-qt recommends no packages. Versions of packages gnuplot-qt suggests: pn gnuplot-doc <none> -- no debconf information