Bug#132632: dpkg: update-alternatives still not right, I think

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

tags 132632 pending
thanks

Previously Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> As far as I can see, no.

Ok, so that bug managed to resurface yet again. The patch below
finally fix it though.

Wichert.

Index: update-alternatives.pl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/dpkg/dpkg/scripts/update-alternatives.pl,v
retrieving revision 1.25
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26
--- update-alternatives.pl      2002/02/02 17:03:26     1.25
+++ update-alternatives.pl      2002/02/06 23:33:07     1.26
@@ -249,12 +249,6 @@
         &quit("unable to remove $altdir/$name.dpkg-tmp: $!");
     $state= 'nonexistent';
     $manual= 'auto';
-} elsif ($state eq 'nonexistent') {
-    if ($manual eq 'manual') {
-        &pr("$altdir/$name has been deleted, returning to automatic selection.")
-          if $verbosemode > 0;
-        $manual= 'auto';
-    }
 }
 
 #   $manual      manual, auto
@@ -316,7 +310,7 @@
 }
 
 if ($mode eq 'remove') {
-    if ($manual eq "manual" and $state eq "expected") {
+    if ($manual eq "manual" and $state ne "expected") {
        &pr("Removing manually selected alternative - switching to auto mode");
        $manual= "auto";
     }


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