On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:21:31PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott was heard to say: > See bug 37252--I believe it is responsible for what you are seeking. > > tkstep8.0 registers slave alternatives (under wish) for > /usr/man/man1/wish8.0.1.gz and /usr/bin/wish8.0 . This is bad because 1) > tk8.0 does not register these as slave alternatives, and 2) these are > actually files in tk8.0! > > However, I do not know why it would give this message about > /usr/bin/wish8.0 and not about /usr/man/man1/wish8.0.1.gz . If you want > help pursuing this further, let me know. > > You can also see bug 37254 I reported against dpkg for its role in the > fiasco. > > Andrew
Ai! Those are *old* bugs! (although given that dpkg is involved, I shouldn't be too surprised..) It doesn't seem to have trashed my system, and unfortunately I don't have a log of the messages -- I may have had something similar for the manpage that I didn't catch -- so I think I'll just let it go and wait for the slowly-turning gears of Debian to fix it. Daniel -- "Inconceivable!" -- "The Princess Bride"
