[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 5:47 PM, Alban Browaeys <prahal at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok. From commit eccd15b20e14a737b662e1b9e21f6cda015250aa I thought the
> move from the symlinks from imagemagick-6.q16 to imagemagick (including
> postinst, prerm, menu, and so forth) was done as to include the symlinks
> in the non arch imagemagick .
> Leaving them in the binary-indep dh_install override and keeping
> imagemagick arch dependent leads to them not shipping at all.
>
> Do you wish to keep them in binary indep override and move them back to
> imagemagick-6 or move the symlinks into the arch override ?

Hi all,

they are two solutions and it is a trade-off between multiarch and a
new package....

indeed I could reproduce the bug with dpkg-buildpackage -B

imagemagick is set to arch any whereas it is it not builded in arch all.

I have corrected it, but it set every man pages that are arch all to a
package arch any

Bastien


> Alban
>
>
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> From: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien+imagemagick at gmail.com>
> To: Alban Browaeys <prahal at yahoo.com>, 709856 at bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:33:58 +0200
> Subject: Re: Bug#709856: imagemagick: fails to install: update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/compare-im6 doesn't exist
> 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
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