hi Paul, On Sat Sep 22, 2018 at 3:46 AM CEST, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: adequate > Version: 0.15.1 > Severity: wishlist > > I discovered some broken alternatives and reported them in #909340, > it would be nice if adequate could also report when the alternatives > registry items[1] contain filenames that do not exist on the system > and when the alternatives configuration[2] contains broken symlinks. > > 1. /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/* > 2. /etc/alternatives/*
I think, even back then, adequate already implemented this functionality, with a few important caveats: 1. it used update-alternatives to get data, rather than access them directly via the two dirs you list (it still does) 2. it would fail on empty alternatives (#857265, recently fixed in 0.16.1) 3. it would (and still does) report only on x-window-manager and x-terminal-emulator so #909340 would not have been detected back then due to 2 and 3, nor today due to 3. I'm unsure as to whether the original author of adequate chose to emit tags only for those two alternative names; perhaps because the Debian policy only requires the use of alternatives for those two alternative names. in any case, it seems reasonable to me to drop 3 (as in, check for _all_ alternative names for which links are configured). thanks, Serafeim
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