Bug#278806: advi man files missing
Package: advi
Version: 1.6.0-2
When installing advi, I get a message from man-db (run daily by cron)
telling that the man page of advi is missing (dangling symlink).
I am running debian unstabe. kernel 2.4.22.
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# apt-get remove advi --purge
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
advi*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 368 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 6189kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 134580 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing advi ...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
Purging configuration files for advi ...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
# apt-get install advi
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
advi
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 368 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4323kB of archives.
After unpacking 6189kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package advi.
(Reading database ... 134336 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking advi (from .../archives/advi_1.6.0-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up advi (1.6.0-2) ...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
# /etc/cron.daily/man-db
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/advi.bin.1.gz is a dangling symlink
# man advi
No manual entry for advi
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
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