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Re: Dangling alternatives symlink on the autobuilders



On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:25:41AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> We (the Debian Octave Group, pkg-octave.alioth.d.o) are running into a
> nasty problem regarding the Debian autobuilders.  For some reason, one of
> the previous uploads of the octave2.9 package has wrongly manipulated the
> octave-config alternative and have let it in the manual status pointing
> to an non-existent file (/usr/bin/octave-config-2.1.71).
> 
> This means that every package build-depending on octave2.1 does not have
> the correct alternative installed and fails to build on the autobuilders
> (or, even worse, builds incorrectly and enters testing, see Bug#349139).
> 
> To help diagnosing the problem, I added a "upadate-alternative --display"
> command to the debian/rules file of the octaviz package.  The result can be
> seen here, for instance:
> 
> http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=octaviz&ver=0.4.0-21&arch=ia64&file=log
> 
> An excerpt of the log above:
> 
> ###########################################################################
> Selecting previously deselected package octave2.1-headers.
> Unpacking octave2.1-headers (from .../octave2.1-headers_1%3a2.1.72-8_ia64.deb) ...
> [...]
> Setting up octave2.1-headers (2.1.72-8) ...
> [...]
> /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display octave-config
> octave-config - status is manual.
> link currently points to /usr/bin/octave-config-2.1.71
> /usr/bin/octave-config-2.1.72 - priority 80
> slave octave-config.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/octave-config-2.1.72.1.gz
> Current `best' version is /usr/bin/octave-config-2.1.72.
> ###########################################################################
> 
> How can this problem be fixed?

That will need to be manually fixed, so the buildd maintainers will all
have to be contacted. Which I just did with this mail ;-)

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../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/
-.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ /
../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../
---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/



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