Alex Romosan wrote:
> update-alternatives doesn't work any more (this is dpkg 1.7.0).
> running by hand:
>
> update=`which update-alternatives`
> perl-5.6 ${update} --install /usr/bin/perl perl /usr/bin/perl-5.6 5006
>
> has no effect (so /usr/bin/perl vanishes).
So dpkg 1.7.0 has broken update-alternatives?
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