Bug#15753: dpkg: update-alternatives nvi<->elvis doesn't work
Jonathan H N Chin <jhnc@pfaff.newton.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.0.19
>
> I installed nvi 1.79-1 then elvis 2.1f-1. I didn't like that elvis
> was now the default, so I purged it.
>
> The alternatives were not updated to point back to nvi so `vi'
> stopped working (although `nvi' of course still did).
This is not a bug in dpkg but was in fact a bug in elvis (#21667)
which was fixed in 2.1i-2, and is in both hamm and slink.
--
James
~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/
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