Bug#457975: epiphany-gecko: Unneeded handling of manual page in alternatives

[Raphael Hertzog]

Package: epiphany-gecko
Version: 2.20.2-1
Severity: normal

The postinst has:
    update-alternatives --install \
        /usr/bin/$alt $alt /usr/bin/epiphany-gecko 85 \
            --slave /usr/share/man/man1/$alt.1.gz $alt.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/epiphany-gecko.1.gz

But in fact /usr/share/man/man1/epiphany-gecko.1.gz doesn't exist and
/usr/share/man/man1/epiphany-browser.1.gz is a real file provided by
epiphany-browser-data.

This can leads to update-alternatives error message such as this one:
$ LANG=C sudo update-alternatives --verbose --auto epiphany-browser
Setting up automatic selection of epiphany-browser.
Checking available versions of epiphany-browser, updating links in /etc/alternatives ...
(You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.)
Updating epiphany-browser (/usr/bin/epiphany-browser) to point to /usr/bin/epiphany-gecko.
warning: /usr/share/man/man1/epiphany-browser.1.gz is supposed to be a slave symlink to
 /etc/alternatives/epiphany-browser.1.gz, or nonexistent; however, readlink failed: Invalid argument
Leaving epiphany-browser.1.gz (/usr/share/man/man1/epiphany-browser.1.gz) pointing to /usr/share/man/man1/epiphany-gecko.1.gz.

And of course /etc/alternatives/epiphany-browser.1.gz is a broken symlink.

I think you simply want to get rid of the slave symlink.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages epiphany-gecko depends on:
ii  dbus                    1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  epiphany-browser-data   2.20.2-1         Data files for the GNOME web brows
ii  gnome-icon-theme        2.20.0-1         GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  iso-codes               1.7-1            ISO language, territory, currency,
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.20.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.20.2-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.20.0-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                   2.7-5            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.12-2         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libenchant1c2a          1.3.0-5          a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libffi4                 4.2.2-4          Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libfontconfig1          2.5.0-2          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2.2-4        GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4             2.20.1-2         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.4-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2      2.20.2-1         Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.1.1-1       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.20.1-1       GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.3-2         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmozjs0d              1.8.1.11-1       The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii  libnspr4-0d             4.7.0~1.9b1-2    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.7-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.3-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-3   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                1.10-3           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification 0.9-1            library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6              4.2.2-4          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-3    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.4-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1              1.1.22-1         XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxul0d                1.8.1.11-1       Gecko engine library
ii  python2.4               2.4.4-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  xulrunner-gnome-support 1.8.1.11-1       Support for Gnome in xulrunner app
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages epiphany-gecko recommends:
ii  epiphany-extensions           2.20.1-2   Extensions for Epiphany web browse
ii  yelp                          2.20.0-1   Help browser for GNOME 2

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