Bug#907413: gnuplot-qt: has a number broken symlinks

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Package: gnuplot-qt
Version: 5.0.5+dfsg1-6+deb9u1
Severity: normal

Dear Gnuplot maintainer,

Today, while searching for a nice packaging example of how to use the
Debian alternatives system (in a package) I noticed that gnuplot-qt
had three broken symlinks in /etc/alternatives.  I believe this
stretch system began as a squeeze installation, or was possibly
installed early in wheezy's freeze.

The first two broken symlinks appear to be lint resulting from a
transition:

  /etc/alternatives/gnuplot5:
      broken symbolic link to /usr/bin/gnuplot5-qt
  /etc/alternatives/gnuplot5.1.gz:
      broken symbolic link to [presumably /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot5-qt.1.gz]

and this one is also broken:

  /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot5.1.gz:
      broken symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/gnuplot5.1.gz

however, "man gnuplot" works as expected because:

  /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot.1.gz:
      symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/gnuplot.1.gz
  /etc/alternatives/gnuplot.1.gz:
      symbolic link to /usr/share/man/man1/gnuplot-qt.1.gz


Maybe it's fixed in sid?

Regards,
Nicholas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.65.20180820 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnuplot-qt depends on:
ii  gnuplot-data         5.0.5+dfsg1-6+deb9u1
ii  libc6                2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libcairo2            1.14.8-1
ii  libedit2             3.1-20160903-3
ii  libgcc1              1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libgd3               2.2.4-2+deb9u2
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.50.3-2
ii  liblua5.1-0          5.1.5-8.1+b2
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.40.5-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.5-1
ii  libqt5core5a         5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5gui5           5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5network5       5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5printsupport5  5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5svg5           5.7.1~20161021-2+b2
ii  libqt5widgets5       5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libstdc++6           6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libwxbase3.0-0v5     3.0.2+dfsg-4
ii  libwxgtk3.0-0v5      3.0.2+dfsg-4
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.4-3

gnuplot-qt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnuplot-qt suggests:
pn  gnuplot-doc  <none>

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