It was my idea to use dlocate to speed up the trigger. Dangling symlinks are leftovers from packages built with python-central < 0.6.8 and these packages don't ship these symlinks in the package, so old dlocate database doesn't hurt (actually, it makes the trigger work even better, see below).
The only problem I see with old database are situations where one installed Lenny and immediately upgraded it to Squeeze (without generating dlocate database first), we can invoke update-dlocatedb to fix that, but... To be honest, I would not check if symlink belongs to a package at all. I'd simply remove all of them as all dangling symlinks in site-packages are either generated by pycentral or come from a broken package anyway. I'd use dpkg -S or dlocate to check *valid* symlinks (generated by pycentral and now valid due to the fact that pysupport is using /usr/share/pyshared as well) but since all (TODO: check it :) packages converted to python-support have appropriate preinst maintainer script, I guess we can ignore it. -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.ozarowski.pl www.griffith.cc www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645
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