[Python-modules-team] Bug#593662: Bug#593662: python-numpy: dangling symlinks

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Ian,

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 07:07, Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:
> Package: python-numpy
> Version: 1:1.4.1-4
> Severity: minor
>
>
> >From the debian changelog:
>
> python-numpy (1:1.4.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
>
>  * debian/rules
>    - use the python-support specific directory (/usr/lib/pymodules) for the
>      symlinks /usr/include/python*/numpy; this correctly installs the header
>      files (mainly _numpyconfig.h) used by depending packages; Closes: #589592
>
> Nice and easy solution, but it introduces dangling symlinks for each
> python version not installed:

Yes, that's because it creates symlinks for all the supported python
versions, so the non-default version can also be not installed, hence
generating dangling symlinks.

How would you resolve the problem that when installing a supported
version after having installed python-numpy, those symlinks have to be
there?

>  [10]matica:~# symlink_check -m M,L,D,R / /usr/local /var

is symlink_check available in debian (I can't find it) or it's
home-made? it might be nice to have it, for example in devscripts
package.

Cheers,
-- 
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