Maybe I misunderstood your reference of "it doesn't after only the language packs". Honestly, I can't really make heads or tails of that comment.
Lintian (and common sense IMVHO) seem to agree that having tens of thousands of dangling symlinks is NOT a feature but of course a bug: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-contains-broken-symlink.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, 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 Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Some examples of dangling symlinks. The full list is in the attachment. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Sep 10 21:30 /usr/share/gnome/help/evince/it/duplex-5pages.page -> ../../../help-langpack/evince/it/duplex-5pages.page lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Sep 10 21:30 /usr/share/gnome/help/evince/it/password.page -> ../../../help-langpack/evince/it/password.page lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Sep 10 21:30 /usr/share/gnome/help/evince/it/reload.page -> ../../../help-langpack/evince/it/reload.page To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1089549/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
