Bug#443368: vegastrike-data: dangling symlinks for some manpages

Luca Capello luca at pca.it
Thu Sep 20 20:38:23 UTC 2007


Package: vegastrike-data
Version: 0.4.3-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hello,

I experienced the following error:
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/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vslauncher.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vsinstall.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vssetup.1 is a dangling symlink
=====

This because:
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luca at gismo:~$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/vslauncher.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 15 00:00 /usr/share/man/man1/vslauncher.1 -> vegastrike.1

luca at gismo:~$ dlocate vegastrike.1
luca at gismo:~$ dpkg -L vegastrike-data | grep vegastrike.1
luca at gismo:~$ dpkg -L vegastrike-data | grep vegastrike.
/usr/share/man/man6/vegastrike.6.gz
[...]
luca at gismo:~$ 
=====

The following patch should solve the problem (not tested):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- vegastrike-data-0.4.3/debian/rules	2007-09-20 22:24:01.000000000 +0200
+++ vegastrike-data/debian/rules	2007-09-20 22:28:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 	dh_testroot
 	dh_installdocs
 	dh_installchangelogs 
-	dh_installman documentation/*.1
+	dh_installman documentation/vegastrike.1
 	dh_link
 	dh_compress
 	dh_fixperms

--- vegastrike-data-0.4.3/debian/vegastrike-data.links	2007-09-20 22:24:01.000000000 +0200
+++ vegastrike-data/debian/vegastrike-data.links	2007-09-20 22:29:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 usr/share/man/man6/vegastrike.6.gz usr/share/man/man6/vsinstall.6.gz
+usr/share/man/man6/vegastrike.6.gz usr/share/man/man6/vslauncher.6.gz
 usr/share/man/man6/vegastrike.6.gz usr/share/man/man6/vssetup.6.gz

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- no debconf information





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