Bug#164214: dpkg: update-alternatives still wrong, methinks

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>]

This simple patch seems to fix both problems at once:

--- /usr/sbin/update-alternatives	Sun Jul 14 13:19:49 2002
+++ /home/itz/downloads/dpkg-1.10.4/usr/sbin/update-alternatives	Thu Oct 10 20:20:54 2002
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
 }
 
 if ($mode eq 'remove') {
-    if ($manual eq "manual" and $state ne "expected") {
+    if ($manual eq "manual" and defined $linkname and $linkname eq $apath) {
     	&pr("Removing manually selected alternative - switching to auto mode");
 	$manual= "auto";
     }


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