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Bug#363420: marked as done (dpkg: forgets to remove alternative links in /usr/bin/?)

Your message dated Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:12:15 +0200
with message-id <200706162212.16346.sune@vuorela.dk>
and subject line dpkg: forgets to remove alternative links in /usr/bin/?
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.10
Severity: normal

I presently have:

  $ for n in serialver prolog javadoc javap; do ls -l /usr/bin/$n /etc/alternatives/$n; done;
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 21 Oct  5  2004 /etc/alternatives/serialver -> /usr/bin/serialver-cp
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 27 Aug 10  2004 /usr/bin/serialver -> /etc/alternatives/serialver
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 16 Sep 28  2004 /etc/alternatives/prolog -> /usr/bin/gprolog
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 24 Jun  6  2003 /usr/bin/prolog -> /etc/alternatives/prolog
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 14 Aug 10  2004 /etc/alternatives/javadoc -> /usr/bin/gjdoc
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 25 Aug 10  2004 /usr/bin/javadoc -> /etc/alternatives/javadoc
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 17 Oct  5  2004 /etc/alternatives/javap -> /usr/bin/javap-cp
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 23 Aug 10  2004 /usr/bin/javap -> /etc/alternatives/javap

all of which are broken symlinks (well, the /usr/bin/links point to
existing links in /etc/alternatives, which are links to nonexisting
_other_ things in /usr/bin/).

It seems reasonable to me that there are broken links in
/etc/alternatives (there are many more); I am guessing that that is
considered considered a type of "conffile", and isn't modified by dpkg
(maybe it is removed on removal [purge?] if it points to where it
would, by default?).

But, it seems that broken links should not exist in /usr/bin/.  I know
I haven't played with any of those links ..

Is dpkg at fault?  Or mb classpath?

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as far as I can see, qt{3,4}-config removes them nicely afterwards.

Closing this bug.

/Sune

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