On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:33:33PM +0000, Fabien COUTANT wrote: > Package: mingw32 > Version: 3.4.5.20060117.1.dfsg-1 > Severity: normal > > Every day cron sends a report about dangling symlinks in mingw32 (only > since updgrade from previous version, FWIW): > /usr/share/man/man1/ > i586-mingw32msvc-c++.1.gz -> i586-mingw32msvc-g++.1.gz > i586-mingw32msvc-cc.1.gz -> i586-mingw32msvc-gcc.1.gz > i586-mingw32msvc-cpp.1.gz -> cpp.1.gz > i586-mingw32msvc-gcc-3.4.5.1.gz -> i586-mingw32msvc-gcc.1.gz > i586-mingw32msvc-gcov.1.gz -> gcov.1.gz > > gcov is not installed on my system, so it should not make the link. > cpp is installed (4.1) but apparently misses a man page !
cpp has a man page, you are apparently missing the cpp-doc package ;-) > 3 others are intra-package dangling links, so should be corrected. > > More generally, the package should provide its own copy of man pages, Except in this case removing them is precisely all the last upload did. These files are licenced under the GFDL with invariant sections and so cannot be distributed in main as DFSG Free Software. I guess we'll just remove the offending $target- aliases too. > because when you link to "cpp" or "gcov" you don't know which version you > get (several are provided in testing), and bets are you won't get the one > that matches mingw32's. The differences are not that great, and even less likely to get you into trouble or mislead you in practice. But if the links aren't helpful any longer there is little reason to keep them... Cheers, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
