Hi, I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently leave alternatives on the system after they were removed. Forgetting to remove alternatives usually leaves dangling symlinks on the system and in most cases these are dangling symlinks in /usr/bin
At the moment there are 20 packages in wheezy and 13 in sid with this problem (a few bugs are already filed), eventually some of these are only depending on a buggy package. Furthermore there is a currently unchecked number of packages that don't properly migrate alternatives on upgrades from squeeze, about 300 logs show the symptoms but most of these are probably caused by dependencies, the number of buggy packages is hopefully much smaller. These bugs were found by further analyzing the piuparts logfiles but there is currently no separate report for them on piuparts.d.o. For piuparts this is an error for the sid test (leaving unowned files after purge), but for all other tests this is only a warning to allow testing more packages for more serious issues. I'll file these bugs with Severity: important since having a piuparts clean archive is a release goal since lenny. Or is this a policy violation that would warrant a higher severity, especially if the package leaves dangling symlinks in /usr/bin? A dd-list for wheezy+sid (19 source packages) is appended, this may include packages that already had bugs filed (and these of course won't see a new bug report). Andreas Blars Blarson <blar...@debian.org> xview Bradley Bell <b...@debian.org> rt-extension-assettracker (U) Branden Robinson <bran...@debian.org> ctwm Damien Raude-Morvan <draz...@debian.org> icedtea-web (U) David Banks <amoe...@gmail.com> sisc Debian Dia Team <pkg-dia-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> dia dia-shapes Debian freesmartphone.org Team <pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org> vala-terminal Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> xview Debian Request Tracker Group <pkg-request-tracker-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> request-tracker3.8 request-tracker4 rt-extension-assettracker rt-extension-emailcompletion rtfm Dmitry Smirnov <only...@member.fsf.org> request-tracker4 (U) Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> request-tracker3.8 (U) request-tracker4 (U) rt-extension-assettracker (U) rt-extension-emailcompletion (U) rtfm (U) Enrico Tassi <gareuselesi...@debian.org> lua5.2 Ivan Kohler <ivan-deb...@420.am> request-tracker3.8 (U) Jacob Helwig <ja...@technosorcery.net> request-tracker3.8 (U) Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> vala-terminal (U) John V. Belmonte <jbelmo...@debian.org> lua5.2 (U) Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> sessioninstaller Luca Bruno <lu...@debian.org> uzbl uzbl (U) Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> icedtea-web (U) Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> request-tracker3.8 (U) request-tracker4 (U) rtfm (U) Ola Lundqvist <o...@debian.org> vnc4 OpenJDK Team <open...@lists.launchpad.net> icedtea-web Philipp Kaluza <deb...@ghostroute.eu> vala-terminal (U) Python Applications Packaging Team <python-apps-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> trac-diavisview Roland Stigge <sti...@antcom.de> dia (U) dia-shapes (U) Sebastian Reichel <s...@debian.org> vala-terminal (U) Stefan Ritter <x...@thehappy.de> uzbl Thomas Bechtold <thomasbecht...@jpberlin.de> dia-shapes (U) Toni Mueller <t...@debian.org> request-tracker3.8 (U) Torsten Landschoff <tors...@debian.org> fox1.6 Trent W. Buck <trentb...@gmail.com> mg W. Martin Borgert <deba...@debian.org> trac-diavisview (U) Wolfgang Borgert <deba...@debian.org> dia (U) dia-shapes (U) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f46a63d.3080...@abeckmann.de
