Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:57:38AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> The bug is that although the mpich-bin package uses >> update-alternatives --install on postinst for all these files, it uses >> update-alternatives --remove only on /usr/lib/mpich/bin/mpirun, leaving >> a bunch of dangling symlinks... >> The reason why I'm mailing debian-devel is that I've seen this behavior >> quite often in the past, in various packages. I hence guess there >> should be some automatic way to check that a package correctly removes >> the alternatives it provides. > Sounds like an issue lintian could catch, so I suggest filing a wishlist > bug on lintian for that, if there is none already. There is none about this in particular, but #53490 (second-oldest bug against lintian) is similar. Both require parsing the command-line arguments of update-alternatives, which is why it's not been done before now. Patches welcome. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
