On Sun, 03 Apr 2011, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: > > update-alternatives tries very hard to not create/keep dangling symlinks > > but if it's never called, it has no chance to clean up anything... > > > > I must say it's a pity that you argued against fixing it in your package. > > I didn't say I didn't want to fix it.
You reassigned to bug, this means "it's not a problem I can fix". > I asked what real problems it caused. It confuses users... it's cruft, it's not clean. The severity might not be serious, it's still a bug. > I said this should IMO be solved at a higher-level. I say we're far from having it solved at a higher level, "declarative diversions" are the subject of a GSoC but there's no plan currently to do something similar with the alternatives. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
