[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#709856: imagemagick: fails to install: update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/compare-im6 doesn't exist

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Alban Browaeys <prahal at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Package: imagemagick
> Version: 8:6.8.5.6-2
> Followup-For: Bug #709856
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> I ended up switching "imagemagick" main package from architecture "any" too
> "all" thus making effective the binary-indep debian rule for
> "imagemagick" package. Otherwise indeed I was lacking the /usr/bin/*-im6
> symbolic links.
> Attach is a patch against the git debian repository.
> Build and installed fine.
>
> Best regards,
> Alban


Thanks for the patch the problem is that the symlink are not arch
neutral and point to /usr/lib/arch

Bastien
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> ImageMagick program version
> ---------------------------
> animate:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> compare:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> convert:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> composite:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> conjure:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> display:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> identify:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> import:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> mogrify:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> montage:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> stream:  ImageMagick 6.8.5-6 2013-05-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages imagemagick depends on:
> ii  imagemagick-6.q16  8:6.8.5.6-2
>
> imagemagick recommends no packages.
>
> imagemagick suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information