found 510943 ncbi-tools6 6.1.20020426-4 fixed 510943 ncbi-tools6 6.1.20081116a-1 thanks
Thanks for the report, though I was already aware of the issue and have uploaded a fix to experimental, which I'll propagate to unstable once lenny releases. (I contemplated also doing so in my recent last-minute lenny-targeted upload to unstable, but ultimately decided not to because I wanted to keep those changes to an absolute minimum and had been under the impression that the issue was fairly minor.) More comments below. > This package calls update-alternatives with an absolute path in the > maintainer scripts, which is not allowed by policy (ยง6.1). Although Strictly speaking, I'd say that it's merely not recommended, as policy uses "should" rather than "must" and Lintian (which had already called the issue to my attention) issues a warning rather than an error. > the biggest issue is that it will break once we move u-a from /usr/sbin > to /usr/bin (#216606). Please do not use absolute paths in those calls. I hadn't been aware of that proposed move, though I do agree that it makes sense, and will be happy to help clear the way for it to occur for squeeze. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?...@monk.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
