Bug#158915: dpkg: update-alternatives stomps on installed file?
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.10
> Severity: normal
>
> with sources.list pointing at testing, try this:
>
> apt-get install tkmail
> file /usr/bin/dotlock
> dpkg -S /usr/bin/dotlock
> apt-get install maildrop
> file /usr/bin/dotlock
>
> It is the packages' responsibility to set this right (tkmail should ship
> dotlock.tkmail instead), but nevertheless I think update-alternatives
> should check for and stop this before it happens (make maildrop installation
> fail). After all, that's what would happen if maildrop tried to ship
> /usr/bin/dotlock as a straight file.
Er, please say exactly what you mean. Running the commands you give above,
shows that update-alternatives does *not* change /usr/bin/dotlock into a
symlink into /etc/alternatives.
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