Bug#317513: kaffe: ELOOP because of multiple alternatives when /usr is a symlink
Package: kaffe
Version: 2:1.1.5-3
Severity: important
The number of symlinks that need to be dereferenced to get to the
binary when /usr/bin/jar is the kaffe jar appears to be the exact
maximum allowed by the kernel. Now my /usr is a symlink (something
that can be considered allowed, as special provisions on our
relative/absolute symlinks in packages were made just for this), and
wow:
$ /usr/bin/jar
bash: /usr/bin/jar: Too many levels of symbolic links
I stumbled upon [1] which explains why the limit is so low and is not
likely to be raised.
But is there any reason to have 2 alternatives involved in accessing
kaffe binaries ? Maybe we should ammend the policy to disallow such
uses of the alternatives ?
[1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9804.1/0250.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-k6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=français (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kaffe depends on:
ii kaffe-jthreads 2:1.1.5-3 A green threads enabled version of
ii kaffe-pthreads 2:1.1.5-3 A POSIX threads enabled version of
kaffe recommends no packages.
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