Re: Bug#192356: pcmcia-cs: Removing pcmcia-cs confuses mandb, resulting in error messages
reassign 192356 boot-floppies
thanks
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:16:46AM -0400, Brian Mays wrote:
> reassign 192356 man-db
> thanks
>
> > I've been plagued for a while with weekly email from mandb
> > complaining about missing files. ...
> >
> > Today I discovered that if I *install* the pcmcia-cs package,
> > these errors go away and mandb produces no output.
> >
> > As this system is a desktop and has no PCMCIA support, it
> > doesn't seem to me that I ought to need the pcmcia-cs package.
>
> I fail to see how this is the fault of the pcmcia-cs package, since the
> problem occurs when the package is *not* installed. It sounds like a
> problem either with the install disks (which are incorrectly purging
> pcmcia-cs from new systems) or man-db itself. (Another unlikely
> possibility is that this is a problem with dpkg.)
>
> I'll start by passing this off to man-db. If its maintainer determines
> that this is not a problem with man-db, then he should probably pass this
> bug report along to "boot-floppies".
This is very unlikely to be a man-db bug - not impossible, but very
unlikely. It's just the messenger, reporting a problem elsewhere: the
files mentioned in the output are apparently dangling symlinks. I don't
think you've successfully argued yet that pcmcia-cs must be out of the
question, since boot-floppies first installs it and then leaves
base-config to purge it later, so if pcmcia-cs failed to purge correctly
then perhaps those links could have been left around. I've no idea what
might have created symlinks like /usr/share/man/man4/wvlan_cs.4 in the
first place, though - any ideas?
Dave, have you any way to reproduce this problem, such as removing
pcmcia-cs again?
I don't wish to play bug tennis, but Brian suggested that I reassign to
boot-floppies if I determined that this wasn't a man-db bug, so I'm
doing so. If it happens that the files in question aren't dangling
symlinks despite man-db reporting them as such, then that would be a bug
in man-db, but that's a rather less likely scenario than them genuinely
being dangling symlinks.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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