Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
I just upgraded my unstable system today. In the process, my /usr/doc
-> /usr/share/doc symlink disappeared. I didn't notice till
afterwards, but I'm pretty sure that's what did it. (It was there
yesterday, and it's unlikely to have been anything else.)
Below is the diff between yesterday and today's dpkg -l \* | grep ^ii
output; I haven't had a chance to examine all of these packages,
though. Anyone have any ideas which package might be guilty for doing
this?
-ii aalib1 1.4p5-6 ascii art library
+ii aalib1 1.4p5-9 ascii art library
-ii adjtimex 1.12-3 Utility to display or set the kernel time va
+ii adjtimex 1.13-1 Utility to display or set the kernel time va
-ii alsa-base 0.9+0beta10-4 ALSA driver common files
+ii alsa-base 0.9+0beta10-5 ALSA driver common files
-ii ash 0.3.8-33 NetBSD /bin/sh
+ii ash 0.3.8-35 NetBSD /bin/sh
-ii autoconf 2.52-4 automatic configure script builder
+ii autoconf 2.52-5 automatic configure script builder
-ii autotools-dev 20011108.1 Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub}
+ii autotools-dev 20020102.1 Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub}
-ii bash 2.05a-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
+ii bash 2.05a-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
-ii bb 1.3rc1-1 An ASCII-art demo.
+ii bb 1.3rc1-2 An ASCII-art demo
-ii bison 1.30-4 A parser generator that is compatible with Y
+ii bison 1.30-4.1 A parser generator that is compatible with Y
-ii bsdgames 2.12-11 collection of text games from BSD systems
+ii bsdgames 2.13-2 collection of text games from BSD systems
-ii catdoc 0.91.4-6 MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter
+ii catdoc 0.91.4-7 MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter
-ii console-common 0.7.10 Basic infrastructure for text console config
+ii console-common 0.7.12 Basic infrastructure for text console config
-ii console-data 1999.08.29-21. Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback table
+ii console-data 1999.08.29-23 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback table
-ii cpp-2.95 2.95.4-0.01100 The GNU C preprocessor.
+ii cpp-2.95 2.95.4-1 The GNU C preprocessor.
-ii cpp-3.0 3.0.3-0pre0112 The GNU C preprocessor.
+ii cpp-3.0 3.0.3-1 The GNU C preprocessor.
+ii ctie 0.9-1 merge multiple CWEB change files into one fi
-ii cvs 1.11.1p1-2 Concurrent Versions System
+ii cvs 1.11.1p1-3 Concurrent Versions System
-ii cvs-buildpacka 3.35 Debian package scripts for CVS source trees.
+ii cvs-buildpacka 3.36 Debian package scripts for CVS source trees.
-ii debconf 1.0.22 Debian configuration management system
+ii debconf 1.0.25 Debian configuration management system
-ii debconf-doc 1.0.22 Debian configuration management system docum
+ii debconf-doc 1.0.25 Debian configuration management system docum
-ii debconf-utils 1.0.22 Debconf utilities
+ii debconf-utils 1.0.25 Debconf utilities
-ii debhelper 3.0.51 helper programs for debian/rules
+ii debhelper 3.4.1 helper programs for debian/rules
-ii debiandoc-sgml 1.1.53 DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools
+ii debiandoc-sgml 1.1.55 DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools
-ii debsigs 0.1.7 Utility for creating signatures in .deb
+ii debsigs 0.1.11 applies cryptographics signatures to Debian
-ii defoma 0.9.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config
+ii defoma 0.10.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config
-ii dh-make 0.26 Debianizing Tool for debhelper
+ii dh-make 0.28 Debianizing Tool for debhelper
-ii dnsutils 9.2.0-1 Clients provided with BIND
+ii dnsutils 9.2.0-4 Clients provided with BIND
-ii doc-linux-text 2001.12-1 Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in ASCII
+ii doc-linux-text 2002.01-1 Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in ASCII
-ii esound 0.2.23-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support binaries
+ii esound 0.2.23-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support binaries
-ii esound-clients 0.2.23-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - clients
+ii esound-clients 0.2.23-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - clients
-ii esound-common 0.2.23-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files
+ii esound-common 0.2.23-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files
-ii exim 3.33-1 Exim Mailer
+ii exim 3.33-1.1 Exim Mailer
-ii fdutils 5.3-3.4 Linux floppy utilities
+ii fdutils 5.3-3.5 Linux floppy utilities
-ii fetchmail-comm 5.9.6-1 POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder (co
+ii fetchmail-comm 5.9.6-2 POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder (co
-ii fetchmail-ssl 5.9.6-1 SSL-enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/f
+ii fetchmail-ssl 5.9.6-2 SSL-enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/f
-ii flex 2.5.4a-14 A fast lexical analyzer generator.
+ii flex 2.5.4a-18 A fast lexical analyzer generator.
-ii ftp 0.17-8 The FTP client.
+ii ftp 0.17-9 The FTP client.
-ii fvwm 2.4.0-3 F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.4
+ii fvwm 2.4.4-4 F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.4
-ii fvwm-icons 2001.08.13-2 xpm's for fvwm
+ii fvwm-icons 2001.08.13-3 XPMs for fvwm
-ii g++-2.95 2.95.4-0.01100 The GNU C++ compiler.
+ii g++-2.95 2.95.4-1 The GNU C++ compiler.
-ii g++-3.0 3.0.3-0pre0112 The GNU C++ compiler.
+ii g++-3.0 3.0.3-1 The GNU C++ compiler.
-ii gcc-2.95 2.95.4-0.01100 The GNU C compiler.
+ii gcc-2.95 2.95.4-1 The GNU C compiler.
-ii gcc-3.0 3.0.3-0pre0112 The GNU C compiler.
+ii gcc-3.0 3.0.3-1 The GNU C compiler.
-ii gcc-3.0-base 3.0.3-0pre0112 The GNU Compiler Collection (base package).
+ii gcc-3.0-base 3.0.3-1 The GNU Compiler Collection (base package).
-ii ghostview 1.5-25 a PostScript viewer for X11
+ii ghostview 1.5-27 a PostScript viewer for X11
-ii gimpprint-loca 4.2.0-2 Locales files for util-linux
+ii gimpprint-loca 4.2.0-3 Locales files for gimp-print
-ii gpm 1.19.6-5 General Purpose Mouse Interface
+ii gpm 1.19.6-9 General Purpose Mouse Interface
-ii gs 6.51-5 The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter
+ii gs 6.51-7 The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter
-ii gs-common 0.3.1 Common files for different Ghostscript relea
+ii gs-common 0.3.2 Common files for different Ghostscript relea
-ii gv 3.5.8-22 A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d A
+ii gv 3.5.8-23 A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d A
-ii imagemagick 5.4.1.2-2 Image manipulation programs.
+ii imagemagick 5.4.2.2-1 Image manipulation programs.
-ii iproute 20010824-1 Professional tools to control the networking
+ii iproute 20010824-4 Professional tools to control the networking
-ii jade 1.2.1-24 James Clark's DSSSL Engine
+ii jade 1.2.1-25 James Clark's DSSSL Engine
-ii kernel-package 7.75 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
+ii kernel-package 7.81 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
-ii klogd 1.4.1-8 Kernel Logging Daemon
+ii klogd 1.4.1-10 Kernel Logging Daemon
-ii less 358-12 A file pager program, similar to more(1)
+ii less 371-2 A file pager program, similar to more(1)
-ii lesstif1 0.93.12-4 OSF/Motif implementation released under LGPL
+ii lesstif1 0.93.18-1 OSF/Motif implementation released under LGPL
-ii libapache-mod- 2.8.5-2 Documentation for Apache module mod_ssl
+ii libapache-mod- 2.8.5-3 Documentation for Apache module mod_ssl
-ii libc5 5.4.46-8 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
+ii libc5 5.4.46-10 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
-ii libdb2 2.7.7.0-2 The Berkeley database routines (run-time fil
+ii libdb2 2.7.7.0-3.1 The Berkeley database routines (run-time fil
-ii libdb2-util 2.7.7.0-2 The Berkeley database routines (development
+ii libdb2-util 2.7.7.0-3.1 The Berkeley database routines (development
-ii libdns5 9.2.0-1 Shared Library used by BIND
+ii libdns5 9.2.0-4 DNS Shared Library used by BIND
-ii libdps1 4.1.0-11 Display PostScript (DPS) client library
+ii libdps1 4.1.0-13 Display PostScript (DPS) client library
-ii libesd0 0.2.23-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries
+ii libesd0 0.2.23-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries
-ii libfreetype6 2.0.5-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
+ii libfreetype6 2.0.6-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
-ii libgcc1 3.0.3-0pre0112 GCC support library.
+ii libgcc1 3.0.3-1 GCC support library.
-ii libgimpprint1 4.2.0-2 library necessary to use gimp-print programs
+ii libgimpprint1 4.2.0-3 library necessary to use gimp-print programs
-ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-5 General Purpose Mouse Library [libc6]
+ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-9 General Purpose Mouse Library [libc6]
-ii libi18n-langta 0.26-1 Perl module for dealing with RFC3066-style l
+ii libi18n-langta 0.26-2 Perl module for dealing with RFC3066-style l
-ii libisc4 9.2.0-1 Shared Library used by BIND
+ii libisc4 9.2.0-4 ISC Shared Library used by BIND
-ii liblcms 1.08-1 Color management library
+ii liblcms 1.08-3 Color management library
-ii libltdl3 1.4.2-3 A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU
+ii libltdl3 1.4.2-4 A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU
-ii libltdl3-dev 1.4.2-3 A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU
+ii libltdl3-dev 1.4.2-4 A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU
-ii liblwres1 9.2.0-1 Shared Library used by BIND
+ii liblwres1 9.2.0-4 Lightweight Resolver Library used by BIND
-ii libmagick5 5.4.1.2-2 Image manipulation library (free version).
+ii libmagick5 5.4.2.2-1 Image manipulation library (free version).
-ii libmailtools-p 1.42-1 Manipulate email in perl programs
+ii libmailtools-p 1.42-2 Manipulate email in perl programs
-ii libmysqlclient 3.23.46-2 mysql database client library
+ii libmysqlclient 3.23.47-1 mysql database client library
-ii libogg0 1.0rc2-1 Ogg Bitstream Library
+ii libogg0 1.0rc3-1 Ogg Bitstream Library
-ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-6 Shared Perl library.
+ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-7 Shared Perl library.
-ii libplot 2.4.1-6 The GNU plotutils libraries.
+ii libplot 2.4.1-7 The GNU plotutils libraries.
+ii libpng3 1.2.1-1 PNG library - runtime
-ii libpopt0 1.6.2-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
+ii libpopt0 1.6.2-6 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
-ii libreadline4 4.2a-2 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
+ii libreadline4 4.2a-4 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
-ii libreadline4-d 4.2a-2 GNU readline and history libraries, developm
+ii libreadline4-d 4.2a-4 GNU readline and history libraries, developm
-ii libsp1 1.3.4-1.2.1-24 Runtime library for James Clark's SP suite
+ii libsp1 1.3.4-1.2.1-25 Runtime library for James Clark's SP suite
-ii libssl0.9.6 0.9.6b-4 SSL shared libraries
+ii libssl0.9.6 0.9.6c-1 SSL shared libraries
-ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01100 The GNU stdc++ library (development files)
+ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-1 The GNU stdc++ library (development files)
-ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01100 The GNU stdc++ library
+ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-1 The GNU stdc++ library
-ii libstdc++3 3.0.3-0pre0112 The GNU stdc++ library version 3
+ii libstdc++3 3.0.3-1 The GNU stdc++ library version 3
-ii libstdc++3-dev 3.0.3-0pre0112 The GNU stdc++ library version 3 (developmen
+ii libstdc++3-dev 3.0.3-1 The GNU stdc++ library version 3 (developmen
+ii libstroke0 0.5.1-1 support for strokes like those in Mentor Gra
+ii libswig1.1 1.1.p883-3 Runtime support libraries for swig generated
-ii libtext-format 0.52-13 Perl module for formatting (text) paragraphs
+ii libtext-format 0.52-14 Perl module for formatting (text) paragraphs
-ii libtool 1.4.2-3 Generic library support script
+ii libtool 1.4.2-4 Generic library support script
-ii liburi-perl 1.17-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strings
+ii liburi-perl 1.18-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strings
-ii libvorbis0 1.0rc2-1 The OGG Vorbis lossy audio compression codec
+ii libvorbis0 1.0rc3-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
-ii libxaw6 4.1.0-11 X Athena widget set library (version 6)
+ii libxaw6 4.1.0-13 X Athena widget set library (version 6)
-ii libxaw7 4.1.0-11 X Athena widget set library
+ii libxaw7 4.1.0-13 X Athena widget set library
-ii libxaw7-dev 4.1.0-11 X Athena widget set library development file
+ii libxaw7-dev 4.1.0-13 X Athena widget set library development file
-ii links 0.96-1 Character mode WWW browser
+ii links 0.96.20011222- Character mode WWW browser
-ii make 3.79.1-10 The GNU version of the "make" utility.
+ii make 3.79.1-11 The GNU version of the "make" utility.
-ii makedev 2.3.1-56 Creates special device files in /dev.
+ii makedev 2.3.1-57 Creates special device files in /dev.
-ii manpages 1.44-1 Man pages about using a Linux system.
+ii manpages 1.47-7 Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
-ii manpages-dev 1.44-1 Linux-development man pages.
+ii manpages-dev 1.47-7 Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for devel
-ii metamail 2.7-42 An implementation of MIME.
+ii metamail 2.7-43 An implementation of MIME.
-ii miscfiles 1.2-2 Dictionaries and other interesting files.
+ii miscfiles 1.3-2 Dictionaries and other interesting files.
-ii modutils 2.4.11-1 Linux module utilities.
+ii modutils 2.4.12-1 Linux module utilities.
-ii motifnls 2.1-7 Files needed to run some Motif applications.
+ii motifnls 2.1-8 Files needed to run some Motif applications.
-ii mpg123 0.59r-10 MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player
+ii mpg123 0.59r-11 MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player
-ii mtools 3.9.8-3 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
+ii mtools 3.9.8-4 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
-ii mutt 1.3.24-2 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG,
+ii mutt 1.3.25-3 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG,
-ii mysql-common 3.23.46-2 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql
+ii mysql-common 3.23.47-1 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql
-ii nfs-common 0.3.3-5 NFS support files common to client and serve
+ii nfs-common 1.0-2 NFS support files common to client and serve
-ii nvi 1.79-19 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi.
+ii nvi 1.79-20 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi.
-ii openssl 0.9.6b-4 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
+ii openssl 0.9.6c-1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
-ii patchutils 0.2.5-2 Utilities to work with patches
+ii patchutils 0.2.7-1 Utilities to work with patches
-ii pcmcia-cs 3.1.29-4 PCMCIA Card Services for Linux.
+ii pcmcia-cs 3.1.31-2 PCMCIA Card Services for Linux.
-ii pcmcia-source 3.1.29-4 PCMCIA Card Services source.
+ii pcmcia-source 3.1.31-2 PCMCIA Card Services source.
-ii perl 5.6.1-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
+ii perl 5.6.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
-ii perl-base 5.6.1-6 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
+ii perl-base 5.6.1-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
-ii perl-doc 5.6.1-6 Perl documentation.
+ii perl-doc 5.6.1-7 Perl documentation.
-ii perl-modules 5.6.1-6 Core Perl modules.
+ii perl-modules 5.6.1-7 Core Perl modules.
-ii perl-suid 5.6.1-6 Runs setuid Perl scripts.
+ii perl-suid 5.6.1-7 Runs setuid Perl scripts.
-ii perlmagick 5.4.1.2-2 A perl interface to the libMagick graphics r
+ii perlmagick 5.4.2.2-1 A perl interface to the libMagick graphics r
-ii pppconfig 2.0.10 A text menu based utility for configuring pp
+ii pppconfig 2.0.14 A text menu based utility for configuring pp
-ii psfontmgr 0.9.1 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, D
+ii psfontmgr 0.10.1 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, D
-ii psgml 1.2.2-7 An Emacs major mode for editing SGML documen
+ii psgml 1.2.2-9 An Emacs major mode for editing SGML documen
-ii python 2.1.1-5 An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
+ii python 2.1.1-8 An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
-ii python2.1 2.1.1-5 An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
+ii python2.1 2.1.1-8 An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
-ii python2.1-elis 2.1.1-5 Emacs-lisp python-mode for the scripting lan
+ii python2.1-elis 2.1.1-8 Emacs-lisp python-mode for the scripting lan
-ii realplayer 8.0.5 Real Player (installer)
+ii realplayer 8.0.6 Real Player (installer)
-ii slang1 1.4.4-6 The S-Lang programming library - runtime ver
+ii slang1 1.4.4-7 The S-Lang programming library - runtime ver
-ii sp 1.3.4-1.2.1-24 James Clark's SGML parsing tools
+ii sp 1.3.4-1.2.1-25 James Clark's SGML parsing tools
-ii ssh 3.0.1p1-1.2 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH)
+ii ssh 3.0.2p1-3 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH)
-ii swig 1.1.p883-2 Generate scripting interfaces to C/C++ code.
+ii swig 1.1.p883-3 Generate scripting interfaces to C/C++ code.
-ii swig-examples 1.1.p883-2 Examples for applications of SWIG.
+ii swig-examples 1.1.p883-3 Examples for applications of SWIG.
-ii sysklogd 1.4.1-8 System Logging Daemon
+ii sysklogd 1.4.1-10 System Logging Daemon
-ii sysutils 1.3.8.5 Miscellaneous small system utilities.
+ii sysutils 1.3.8.5.1 Miscellaneous small system utilities.
-ii t1lib1 1.2-1 Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
+ii t1lib1 1.3.1-1 Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
-ii t1utils 1.24-1 A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulat
+ii t1utils 1.25-1 A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulat
-ii timidity 2.10.4-2 Software-only MIDI sequencer.
+ii timidity 2.10.4-2.1 Software-only MIDI sequencer.
-ii ttf-commercial 1.4 Install or share some commercial TrueType fo
+ii ttf-commercial 1.7 Install or share some commercial TrueType fo
-ii whois 4.5.16 The GNU whois client
+ii whois 4.5.18 The GNU whois client
-ii xbase-clients 4.1.0-11 miscellaneous X clients
+ii xbase-clients 4.1.0-13 miscellaneous X clients
-ii xdm 4.1.0-11 X display manager
+ii xdm 4.1.0-13 X display manager
-ii xext 3.3.6-42 extensions to XFree86 3.x servers
+ii xext 3.3.6-44 extensions to XFree86 3.x servers
-ii xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-11 75 dpi fonts for X
+ii xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-13 75 dpi fonts for X
-ii xfonts-base 4.1.0-11 standard fonts for X
+ii xfonts-base 4.1.0-13 standard fonts for X
-ii xfonts-scalabl 4.1.0-11 scalable fonts for X
+ii xfonts-scalabl 4.1.0-13 scalable fonts for X
-ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-11 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
+ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-13 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
-ii xfs 4.1.0-11 X font server
+ii xfs 4.1.0-13 X font server
-ii xlib6g 4.1.0-11 pseudopackage providing X libraries
+ii xlib6g 4.1.0-13 pseudopackage providing X libraries
-ii xlib6g-dev 4.1.0-11 pseudopackage providing X library developmen
+ii xlib6g-dev 4.1.0-13 pseudopackage providing X library developmen
-ii xlibs 4.1.0-11 X Window System client libraries
+ii xlibs 4.1.0-13 X Window System client libraries
-ii xlibs-dev 4.1.0-11 X Window System client library development f
+ii xlibs-dev 4.1.0-13 X Window System client library development f
-ii xserver-common 4.1.0-11 files and utilities common to all X servers
+ii xserver-common 4.1.0-13 files and utilities common to all X servers
-ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-11 the XFree86 X server
+ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-13 the XFree86 X server
-ii xutils 4.1.0-11 X Window System utility programs
+ii xutils 4.1.0-13 X Window System utility programs
Julian
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