Norbert Preining wrote: > There is NO way to decide on "sane"/"non-broken" in every case. We can > ONLY care for dangling symlinks which WE have installed, not for > anything else.
I know that. There was no dangling symlink. There was no symlink. Period. Dangling symlinks are not in question. To whoever brought this up: go report another bug. >> My system is a simple standalone laptop. As are the majority of >> installs, I presume. I would expect the install scripts to be able to >> handle this situation. > > It could be that the code already handles this, but the postinst script > was stopped prior to executing the update-alternatives code due to an > error in fmtutil-sys. Then that is reason for the symptoms I reported. Feel free to close the bug whenever this is fixed. /JÅ -- [gutsy] xdvi.bin symlink not installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156628 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs