Bug#131464: marked as done (Tries to update a symlink in non existent /usr/share/man/ja/man1/)
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From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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Subject: Tries to update a symlink in non existent /usr/share/man/ja/man1/
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Package: fastjar
Version: 1:3.0.4-0pre020127
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Hi,
My argument is that if one can't even install the package,
surely it is unusable?
Setting up fastjar (3.0.4-0pre020127) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ja/man1/jar.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/jar.ja.1.gz: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fastjar (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
I don't even have /usr/share/man/ja/
__> l /usr/share/man/
total 356
4 ./ 4 fastmail.n.gz 8 man7/
8 ../ 4 frm.n.gz 20 man8/
4 answer.n.gz 4 listalias.n.gz 4 messages.n.gz
4 checkalias.n.gz 76 man1/ 4 newalias.n.gz
4 elmalias.n.gz 16 man2/ 4 newmail.n.gz
4 elmcharset.n.gz 144 man3/ 4 printmail.n.gz
4 elm.n.gz 4 man4/ 4 readmsg.n.gz
4 elmterminal.n.gz 8 man5/ 0 wnewmail.n.gz@
4 elmunidata.n.gz 8 man6/
manoj
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux glaurung 2.4.17 #1 Fri Dec 21 21:06:24 CST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages fastjar depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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To: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#131464: Tries to update a symlink in non existent
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/
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>>"Matthias" == Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
Matthias> Even with setting the locale, I cannot reproduce this. Could you try
Matthias> to install/upgrade another package, which uses alternatives?
Hmm. Given this, I decided to delve deeper into this. The
post install scripts are OK -- just as you said.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
update-alternatives --quiet --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/bin/fastjar 30 \
--slave /usr/share/man/man1/jar.1.gz jar.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/fastjar.1.gz
----------------------------------------------------------------------
So why is update alternatives failing? I looked into my
/etc/alternatives dir, and I found:
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__> ll /etc/alternatives/jar*
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 30 14:12 /etc/alternatives/jar -> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/jar
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Jan 30 14:12 /etc/alternatives/jar.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/jar.j2sdk13.1.gz
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jul 13 2001 /etc/alternatives/jar.ja.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/ja/man1/jar.j2sdk13.1.gz
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jul 13 2001 /etc/alternatives/jarsigner -> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/jarsigner
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Jul 13 2001 /etc/alternatives/jarsigner.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/jarsigner.j2sdk13.1.gz
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Jul 13 2001 /etc/alternatives/jarsigner.ja.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/ja/man1/jarsigner.j2sdk13.1.gz
======================================================================
So the thrid party j2sdk13.1 package seems to be the
culprit. The .ja.1.gz links are dangling. When I removed the dangling
symlinks in /etc/alternatives, and fixed up the dpkg meta information in
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/{jar,java}, these packages configured just
fine. This was a local error.
manoj
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