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 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
