> After uninstalling ipython, I get the following notice from man-db
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ipython.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/pycolor.1.gz is a dangling symlink
>
> This looks like an update-alternative issues in the prerm maintainer
> scripts.
Indeed. The prerm script contains this:
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
for i in ipython pycolor ; do
update-alternatives --remove $i /usr/bin/python2.4-$i
done
fi
However, "$1" is never "configure" for prerm. The test should check for
"remove"
instead. I stubmled on this while testing packages with piuparts, which gives
the
following error messages:
3m43.9s ERROR: Package purging left files on system:
/etc/alternatives/ipython
/etc/alternatives/ipython.1.gz
/etc/alternatives/pycolor
/etc/alternatives/pycolor.1.gz
/usr/bin/ipython
/usr/bin/pycolor
/usr/share/man/man1/ipython.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pycolor.1.gz
Hope this is helpful, happy hacking.
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