Sebastien, thank you for the thorough explanation. At least I understand some of the background now. I will see if I can come up with some incredibly cool idea that everybody else overlooked so far ;-)
I've already done as you suggested and redirected stderr but of course that's more of a workaround. I'll redo the search for dangling symlinks, exclude those resulting for the language packs (hopefully) and file the remaining bugs. I apologize for the noise and the unnecessary work for you, it wasn't apparent to me that most of them shared a common cause. In my defense, I'd like to point out that I had stopped after about 10 packages when there were about 80 left to go, waiting for confirmation which indeed I did receive (in other packages). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1089549 Title: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1089549/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
