Hi, the patch attached to this mail should fix known problem with update-alternatives, especially bothering with recent X upgrades (resetting to auto mode). Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- I am Hamlet of Borg. To assimilate or not to assimlate, that is the question.
Index: debian/changelog
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RCS file: /cvs/dpkg/dpkg/debian/changelog,v
retrieving revision 1.316
diff -u -r1.316 changelog
--- debian/changelog 7 Oct 2002 22:29:48 -0000 1.316
+++ debian/changelog 24 Oct 2002 07:10:39 -0000
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
* dpkg-statoverride did not check if a filemode was numeric.
Closes: Bug#161156
* Update Catalan translation
+ * update-alternatives looks whether the target path exists on removing,
+ closes: #37254, #85502, #158973, #48895, #158973, #164214
-- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:02:59 +0200
Index: scripts/update-alternatives.pl
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RCS file: /cvs/dpkg/dpkg/scripts/update-alternatives.pl,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 update-alternatives.pl
--- scripts/update-alternatives.pl 28 Apr 2002 19:34:07 -0000 1.28
+++ scripts/update-alternatives.pl 24 Oct 2002 07:10:40 -0000
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
}
if ($mode eq 'remove') {
- if ($manual eq "manual" and $state ne "expected") {
+ if ($manual eq "manual" and $state ne "expected" and (grep(/^$apath$/, @versions))) {
&pr("Removing manually selected alternative - switching to auto mode");
$manual= "auto";
}
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