On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:26:45AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > reopen 432785 > found 432785 2.57-1 > found 432785 3.35-0.1 > thanks > > On 2012-04-28 21:55:02 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:54:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > /usr/share/man/man2/path_resolution.2.gz is a dangling symlink: > > > > > > ay:~> ls -l /usr/share/man/man2/path_resolution.2.gz > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2007-07-09 10:29:03 > > > /usr/share/man/man2/path_resolution.2.gz -> ../man7/path_resolution.7.gz > > > ay:~> ls -lL /usr/share/man/man2/path_resolution.2.gz > > > ls: /usr/share/man/man2/path_resolution.2.gz: No such file or directory > > > > manpages: /usr/share/man/man7/path_resolution.7.gz > > manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man2/path_resolution.2.gz > > > > As manpages-dev depends on manpages itself, there is no risk of > > dangling symlink. > > This is non-sense: You can see the bug above; so, it is not a question > of risk, it is a fact. And note that you confirmed the bug.
By error: $ ls -lL /usr/share/man/man2/path_resolution.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3699 3 déc. 2010 /usr/share/man/man2/path_resolution.2.gz $ ls -lL /usr/share/man/man7/path_resolution.7.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3699 3 déc. 2010 /usr/share/man/man7/path_resolution.7.gz Do you reproduce the bug on your system ? I don't with 3.35. > The reason is that the dependency is obviously not sufficient, as > /usr/share/man/man7/path_resolution.7.gz is not present in manpages 2.49-1. But present and hence bug solved since lenny ! > You need a *versioned* dependency to make sure that manpages is recent > enough. We *did* need -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
