dangling symlink for rmic.1.gz in /etc/alternatives

[Troy Thomas Hall]

I received a cron report telling me there was a dangling symlink for rmic.1.gz.
 Upon examination there are actually 3.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Oct 27 01:14 /etc/alternatives/rmic ->
/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/rmic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Oct 27 01:14 /etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz ->
/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/rmic.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 27 01:14 /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz ->
/etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz

all of these are red. However, rmic does exist in ...
/usr/bin/rmic
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/rmic

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

It indeed happens; seen with a fresh Breezy install. Perhaps some of our
auto-testing infrastructure could check for dangling symlinks after installing a
package -- lifeless, ian?

At any rate, /usr/bin/rmic is a link to /etc/alternatives/rmic, so it's dangling
too, and /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives doesn't hold real executables.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in java-gcj-compat_1.0.44-0ubuntu1