Re: man dangling symlink question

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 08 Oct 2003 19:35:26 +0200, JG <j2003gi@yahoo.es>
penned:
> Hi,
> 
> "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>
> writes:
> 
>> Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following:
>> 
>> home:~# ls -l  /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx    1 root
>> root           31 Sep 21 10:12 /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz ->
>> /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz home:~# ls -l
>> /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root
>> 36 Sep 26 19:56 /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz ->
>> /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex8.1.1.gz home:~# ls
>> /usr/share/man/man1/tix* /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz@
>> /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish8.1.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish.1.gz@
>> 
>> 
>> My question: what exactly is tixindex an alternative *for*?  Am I
>> safe just blowing away both those symlinks?
>> 
>> This may or may not be relevant:
>> 
>> home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/tixindex lrwxrwxrwx    1 root
>> root           20 Sep 26 19:56 /etc/alternatives/tixindex ->
>> /usr/bin/tixindex8.1
>> 
> 
> $ update-alternatives --display tixindex
> 
> should give you a good start. 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Jaume

Thanks!

It says "no alternatives" ... hrm.  

I removed the alternatives entry by way of update-alternatives
--remove-all, but of course that doesn't fix the existing problem.

It finally occured to me to check the bug reports for this package.
Sure enough:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=tix8.1

#214055: tix8.1: /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex8.1.1.gz missing

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