On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:04:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > A package in main that causes cron to spew these messages unless a package > in contrib is installed, is broken. Not installing Suggests is not intended > to leave the system in this kind of state.
Fair comments, I don't disagree with that. > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/i586-mingw32msvc-gcc-3.4.5.1.gz is a > dangling symlink > > It would be acceptable to replace these symlinks with short man pages > that point to cpp(1) etc for detailed documentation. Policy is probably ok with that, but with the benefit of more time to think on this, I'm not sure that I am. Not having free documentation for our primary toolchain _is_ a serious bug IMO. So I think I'm leaning toward the 'purge the symlinks and retitle this bug "binary w/o a manpage"' solution, in preference to the 'cover the gaps, close the bugs, pretend its all ok' path. I'm sure we'll have free documentation again eventually. I just don't know when. This really is an open issue (and a pita) until we do... The bug can remain open as a reminder to all, it will just be a little less annoying on a daily basis than the present solution. Most people using the toolchain can probably map foo-gcc to gcc(1) in their heads without too much prompting, and it would probably be a safe bet the majority already do rather than typing the full foo- alias. If I'm still convinced of this at the next upload, that's what I'll do then ... > In the meantime, I'm purging this package. :-/ If you really need it in the meantime, rm works on these symlinks the same as for any other broken package that left them dangling or forgot them in a purge. ; ) Thanks for your input just the same, its hard to judge lesser evils from just a small sample of opinions. In hindsight I agree the convenience to people who do install the non-free docs does not balance the inconvenience to those who don't with the present arrangement. Cheers! Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
