On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 14:14 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:53:07AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 20:58 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > > On 5 July 2006 at 18:42, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > | On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:59:58PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > [..]
> > > 
> > > | I have another system; I'm not sure if the html is installed there.
> > > 
> > > Err, how about asking 'dpkg -s r-doc-html' ?  Wouldn't that tell you?
> > Yes; I just wasn't on the system.
> > > 
> > > | If it is, would manually deleting the "manual" link before upgrade be
> > > | sufficient to get things to work smoothly?
> > > 
> > > I hope so as the suggested fix is trying to the same :)  Why don't you 
> > > test
> > > it manually if you have other system with a similar setup, or can recreate
> > > your setup?
> > The other system doesn't have r-doc-html installed.  What version do I
> > need to test it?  stable?
> 
> I don't know. I tend to run only unstable/testing so I have more or less
> forgotten when and how this changed.  But the changelog documents it.
> 
> If you can't test it, we simply won't test it.
> 
I installed the version from stable, but the manual entry was not a
symlink.  The upgrade to testing went smoothly.  Judging from the
comments in the changelog, manual being a symlink is a pretty feature;
it's a little surprising it survived so long on my machine.



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