Re: ctags dangling symlink and emacs21-common

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

On 2004-09-09 Christophe Chisogne <christophe@publicityweb.com> wrote:

> I found a little problem, but dont know where to report it.

> On a sarge box, the man-db daily cron warns:
>   /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz is a dangling symlink

> Indeed:
> /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/ctags.1.gz
> /etc/alternatives/ctags.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.xemacs21.1.gz
> But /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.xemacs21.1.gz is not there
> only /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1emacs21.gz, which belongs to emacs21-common.

> I guess it's only a typo in emacs21-common?
[...]

No. emacs21-bin-common in sarge correctly registers
/usr/bin/ctags.emacs21 together with
/usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1emacs21.gz as alternative for ctags.

It is probably a bug in xemacs21, it used to provide ctags, too but
has not cleaned up properly.

http://bugs.debian.org/269177
                  cu andreas
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