On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:57:24PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:48:10AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > This is a case of "don't do that then" which has been discussed at length
> > before:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139796&repeatmerged=yes
> >
> > I'm closing this bug report.
>
> Will someone please take responsibility for this [EMAIL PROTECTED]@# bug!
>
We take patches, you know?
> These
> users are using localepurge in the exact way the instructions say to.
[ snip ]
> If localepurge should not be used ("don't do that then"),
> then it should not be in the distribution.
>
Just like /bin/rm could easily be used to delete the kernel. That's why
it shouldn't be in the distribution, right? Get real!
localepurge is nothing more than a wrapper around /bin/rm and does nothing
else than deleting those files from the system that a user requests for
deletion. So if he requests deletions he better shouldn't, then he's to
blame. Is this so hard to understand?
> If it is in the distribution,
> then it must work when used according to the instructions.
>
Well, it actually exactly does extraordinary well. But it doesn't work
around the bugs of other packages, in this case the flaky symlink handling
of update-alternatives. So please don't insist on fixing localepurge where
it ain't broken, please!
It is not the problem of localepurge if dpkg's update-alternatives is not
robust enough to handle broken symlinks. This is the same as Bug#143701
which i reassigned to dpkg yesterday. Deal with it.
Thanks, P. *8^)
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