[Piuparts-devel] Bug#615034: Bug#615034: Bug#615034: piuparts: New check: detect dangling alternatives

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 12:40 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:

> do you need cc:s or are you subscribed?

I need CCs.

> Our discussion made me realize how to turn the missing symlink check into a 
> meaningful one: by emphasizing missing symlinks to /usr/bin,/sbin and so on. 
> I _believe_ most of the 8000 missing symlinks detected in sid are pointing to 
> documentation (and are due to packages recommending their documentation and 
> blindly installing the symlinks pointing to it) and frankly I gave up caring 
> about those, but I'd like to find the meaningful missing symlinks and file 
> bugs about those. 

That is a good idea.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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