On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:30:11AM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote:

> I've installed KDE 1.1 but I've a symlink to a nonexistant file. It's a bug?

> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           28 JÚL  5 21:15 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde -> debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/bin/kde

> Currently I use 'kde' instead of 'startkde'.

Yes - it's a bug (the symlink points into the build tree - the
maintainer needs to make sure that all symlinks within debian/tmp are
relative to debian/tmp and not the root of the build tree).

Broken symlinks in packages are almost always bugs, even if it's just a
missing dependancy.

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