Bug#335479: /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz is a dangling symlink

Wolfgang Baer WBaer at gmx.de
Mon Oct 24 09:11:44 UTC 2005


Hi Thomas,

Thomas Schoepf wrote:
> Package: kaffe-common
> Version: 1.1.6-3
> 
> ts at europa:~$ ll /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.*
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root  27 Oct 23 12:14 /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz ->
> /etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 724 Oct  3 10:33 /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.kaffe.1.gz
> ts at europa:~$ clear
> ts at europa:~$ ll /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 27 Oct 23 12:14 /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz ->
> /etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz
> ts at europa:~$ ll /etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root root 40 Oct 23 12:14 /etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz ->
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/rmic.1.gz
> ts at europa:~$ ll /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/rmic.1.gz
> ls: /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/rmic.1.gz: No such file or directory
> ts at europa:~$ locate rmic.1.gz
> /etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz

The problem seems to be in java-gcj-compat and not kaffe.

Anyway you included to less information to track down the problem.
Which system (testing/unstable) are you using and which version of
java-gcj-compat have you installed ?

On my system ll /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/rmic.1.gz gives me a
correct link to the _grmic_ named version of java-gcj:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 44 2005-08-13 15:18 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/rmic.1.gz -> 
../../../../../share/man/man1/grmic-4.0.1.gz

Regards,
Wolfgang






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