[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2013-02-12 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for evince (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2012-12-14 Thread Rolf Leggewie
I didn't say it doesn't, but I don't, obviously as a response to your question do you have language-pack-gnome-it-base installed? About the symlinks. I have about 30.000 dangling symlinks. The symlinks should obviously be shipped in the packages that provide the file being pointed to. Having

[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2012-12-14 Thread Rolf Leggewie
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:

[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2012-12-14 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Sorry for the reply which didn't make sense, I typed that quickly and to be frank rather annoyed after having to deal with the stack of bugs duplicates you filed for this issue... The symlinks should obviously be shipped in the packages that provide the file being pointed to. if you have a

[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2012-12-14 Thread Rolf Leggewie
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

[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2012-12-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Thank you for your bug report, do you have language-pack-gnome-it-base installed? ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2012-12-12 Thread Rolf Leggewie
No, I don't. But as you can see from the attachment this does not only concern the Italian language or only the language packs after all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2012-12-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
hum, what do you mean it doesn't after only the language packs? it seems to be and that's a feature, that's how we implemented the langpacks for help files, the original source ships symlink to the location where the language pack will provide the files. Is that creating any issue for you? --

[Bug 1089549] Re: evince-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 installs 1810 broken symlinks under /usr in precise

2012-12-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
ok, I dupped a few bugs and closed a few others one but I don't intend to try to play catchup on that spamming, please use that bug to discuss the issue before continuing to file new bugs... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is