[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#614716: Processed: your mail

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2011, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:
> > update-alternatives tries very hard to not create/keep dangling symlinks
> > but if it's never called, it has no chance to clean up anything...
> >
> > I must say it's a pity that you argued against fixing it in your package.
> 
> I didn't say I didn't want to fix it.

You reassigned to bug, this means "it's not a problem I can fix".

> I asked what real problems it caused.

It confuses users... it's cruft, it's not clean.

The severity might not be serious, it's still a bug.

> I said this should IMO be solved at a higher-level.

I say we're far from having it solved at a higher level, "declarative
diversions" are the subject of a GSoC but there's no plan currently to do
something similar with the alternatives.

Cheers,
-- 
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