Bug#475817: ghostscript: ps2pdf is a script whereas it should be an alternative symlink

[Raphael Hertzog]

severity 475817 serious
thanks

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
 according to /var/lib/dpkg/info/ghostscript.postinst ps2pdf is supposed
 to be an alternative:

And the alternative management is badly done, the prerm always removes
all the alternatives even for simple upgrades which means that the
choice of the administrator is not preserved (his manual choice will get
back to auto after each upgrade, any manually installed alternative will
also be removed with --remove-all).

Hence increasing severity to serious (admin config lost).

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog

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Bug#475817: ghostscript: ps2pdf is a script whereas it should be an alternative symlink

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Package: ghostscript
Version: 8.62.dfsg.1-2
Severity: normal


Hi,

according to /var/lib/dpkg/info/ghostscript.postinst ps2pdf is supposed
to be an alternative:

# /usr/bin/ps2pdf is now controlled by update-alternatives
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ps2pdf \
  ps2pdf /usr/bin/ps2pdf14 50
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ps2pdf \
  ps2pdf /usr/bin/ps2pdf12 30
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ps2pdf \
  ps2pdf /usr/bin/ps2pdf13 40

However on my system, /usr/bin/ps2pdf is a script instead of a symlink:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  315 2008-03-12 19:03 /usr/bin/ps2pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  260 2008-03-12 19:03 /usr/bin/ps2pdf12
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  260 2008-03-12 19:03 /usr/bin/ps2pdf13
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  260 2008-03-12 19:03 /usr/bin/ps2pdf14
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1110 2008-03-12 19:03 /usr/bin/ps2pdfwr


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii  debconf [debc 1.5.20 Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils   2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  defoma0.11.10-0.2Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  gsfonts   1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre43-2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii  libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgs88.62.dfsg.1-2  The Ghostscript PostScript/PDF int

Versions of packages ghostscript recommends:
ii  psfontmgr0.11.10-0.2 PostScript font manager -- part of

-- no debconf information

-- 
Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/





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