Bug#453812: cpp: package provides a dangling symlink: FAQ.gz
Package: cpp
Version: 4:4.2.1-6
Severity: minor
Tags:
This bug involves more then one package. I'm reporting this on package
cpp, but package gcc contains the link, while package gcc-4.2 is missing the
relevant file. I was unable to report a bug on package gcc since the package
is a dependancy package (but "dpkg -L gcc" lists the dangling link, not cpp).
Problem:
symbolic link /usr/share/doc/cpp/FAQ.gz is pointing
to ../gcc-4.2/FAQ.gz which does not exist.
2 solutions:
- add /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.2-base/FAQ.gz to package gcc-4.2 (like
in gcc-4.1).
- remove symlink from package gcc.
but IMHO:
Cross package symboling links can never be very solid, and are asking
for trouble. So I suspect simply removing the invalid link is the
best solution.