Bug#90331: general: man 'program' on clean inst of deb gives all errors of dangling symlinks.

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

David Jacobson <jakes@leet.org>, 90331@bugs.debian.org wrote:
>Package: general
>Version: 20010319
>Severity: wishlist
>
>On a clean installation of Debian 2.2 when I man a program that doesn't
>have a man page I get stuff like 
>man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/resolveip.1.gz is a dangling symlink
>man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/resolveip.1: No such file or directory
>man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/resolveip.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF
>`.so' request
>man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/mergetr.1.gz is a dangling symlink
>man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/mergetr.1: No such file or directory
>man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/mergetr.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF
>`.so' request
>obviously removing the dangling symlinks fixes it, but can't you guys
>just fix it or something?:)

Only the maintainers of the packages in question can (respectively,
mysql-server and libqt2-dev). Dangling symlinks are usually a bug. I
have some stuff in the works to try to stop man rescanning quite so
much, though.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]