Bug#603595: openoffice.org-java-common: dangling symlink /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/classes/bsh.jar
On 2010-11-15 19:16:27 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> severity 603595 minor
> tag 603595 + wontfix
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:20:58PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/classes/bsh.jar is a
> > dangling symlink:
> >
> > ypig% ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/classes/bsh.jar
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2010-11-15 16:08:27 /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/classes/bsh.jar -> ../../../../../share/java/bsh.jar
> > ypig% ls -lL /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/classes/bsh.jar
> > ls: cannot access /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/classes/bsh.jar: No such file or directory
>
> apt-get install bsh :)
This is bad. Users shouldn't have to install packages manually just
to avoid dangling symlinks. IMHO, here the symlink should be added
only when bsh is installed.
It's strange that the Debian Policy Manual doesn't mention the status
of dangling symlinks. Since tools like grep complain about them, they
should be regarded as an error.
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