On 22 March 2005 at 09:03, Pierre THIERRY wrote: | Scribit Dirk Eddelbuettel dies 21/03/2005 hora 20:49: | > You better check again. You may have a problem with your /usr/share/doc | > hierarchy, or something else is going one. | | I don't see the point. The files are in /usr/lib, and are symlinks on | themselves. Why would it be a /usr/share/doc issue?
I am unsure about what could cause it. That was just an educated guess based on an issue we once had years ago when we migrated /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc/. But if your system isn't old, this doesn't apply. | BTW, I purged the package and installed it, and everything's fine. I | don't understand. Is it possible that something was wrong in a | maintainer's script, something dealing with configuration files? (I had How could it be? There is _no maintainer script involved_. Look at 'dpkg -c /path/to/r-doc-html_*.deb' which already contains the symlinks. No local action on your part. | resintalled it two times before, the dangling symlinks were still there) I really don't know but as long as this is irreproducible it doesn't constitute a bug. Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
