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

[Anton Gladky]

fixed 907413 5.2.4+dfsg1-1
thanks

Hello Nicholas,

thank you for you bugreport.

There was a painful transition gnuplot(4) -> gnuplot5 -> gnuplot(5) some
time ago. And as far as I remember we fixed all problems with the old
and broken symlinks. At least our automatic system, which is detecting
such problems does not find any issues any more.

It could of course happen, that your particular system was affected by
some more difficulties. which we did not identified before. But
anyway, we will not provide any more updates for the gnuplot, being in
the stable version except some security fixes. Thus I am marking the bug
"fixed".

If some problems will be found in the current sid, we will try to fix them ASAP.

Thanks,

Anton

Am Mo., 27. Aug. 2018 um 20:12 Uhr schrieb Nicholas D Steeves
<nsteeves at gmail.com>:
>
> 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>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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