Bug#206063: Processed: Re: Bug#206063: base-files - please remove unused /usr/{dict,info}

[Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@aq.upm.es>]

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > clone 206063 -1
>
> Bug#206063: base-files - please remove unused /usr/{dict,info}
> Bug 206063 cloned as bug 206074.
>
>
> > reassign -1 dictionaries-common
>
> Bug#206074: base-files - please remove unused /usr/{dict,info}
> Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dictionaries-common'.

Hi Bastian, and sorry for the late reply

I am preparing a new release of dictionaries-common that no longer sets 
the /usr/dict symlink. While I considered to remove it unconditionally, 
sysadmins might want to put it back for their convenience (obsolete 
programs and so on), and removing it from package postinst will remove 
their setting, so this package simply does not set it. Trying to remove 
it in a semi intelligent way required some play with debconf and I doubt 
it worths. However the link will be removed on dictionaries-common removal.

Since this link was added after a wishlist-bug (#110632) and was not 
present in previous Debian releases (there was a /usr/dict/words -> 
/usr/share/dict/words symlink), an upgrade from woody will result in the 
symlink no longer being present, what will happen in most systems.

Cheers,

--
Agustin