Re: Master

[Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 11:21:01PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 05:01:24PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > (I think I have the details a bit wrong for emacs, and in fact the
> > maintainer may have fixed it, because there are now postinst commands to
> > remove the old alternatives, and the new alternative points to emacs20.
> 
> Maybe, but the file /usr/man/man1/pstogif.xemacs20.1.gz doesn't exist
> on my slink system, with pstogif from xemacs20-bin installed, and that
> creates a similar dangling symlink mess.

I filed bug #34297 about this.  AFAICT, it's a simple mistake by the
packager and has nothing much to do with the alternatives system.

Andrew

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