Bug#250258: dpkg: update-alternatives --flush and --flush-all command

[Daniel Skarda <0rfelyus@hobitin.ucw.cz>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.21
Severity: wishlist

Disk crash destroyed many files in /usr/bin (fortunately, /etc and /var
directories were not affected by this error). When I reinstalled all
packages I found that in /usr/bin there were still missing many
symlinks managed by update-alternatives.

My wishlish for update-alternatives is a command (--flush, --check or
--force?), that reads alternatives configuration from /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
and checks that symlinks from /usr/bin to /etc/alternatives exists and
symlinks from /etc/alternatives match user configuration.

-- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT
policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.24 Locale:
LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.21      a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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