Re: Broken vim man pages in potato
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:03:25PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote:
> Did a apt-get install of vim on a minimum install of potato 2.2r5, then
> used update-alternatives --config vi and selected vim. Now when I do a
> 'man vi' I get:
>
> man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink
>
> 'man vim' works just fine. I checked and the manual pages for vim are
> in /usr/man/man1, not /usr/share/man/man1, so it looks like when vim
> registered with update-alternatives it apparently gave the wrong slave
> link:
>
> # update-alternatives --display vi
> vi - status is manual
> link currently points to /usr/bin/vim
> /usr/bin/vim - priority 20
> slave vi.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz
>
> Who would I talk to about getting this fixed?
Relatively minor problems like this won't be fixed in potato. If it
still occurs in woody (which I don't believe it does), then file a bug:
see <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/>.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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