Bug#968560: unison-2.48: Bad alternative link for unison

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 17/08/2020 à 14:21, frydo bugdeb a écrit :
> Using unison though network with ssh, since last update I could not have it
> work.
> Connection was lost right after I give my password.
> 
> Launching unison from a shell, I could see that it was looking for a file,
> unison, that could not be found.
> 
> I found out that it came from the fact that a link
> /usr/etc/alternatives/unison
> (where /usr/bin/unison points to) was pointing on an invalid file,
> /usr/bin/unison-latest-stable-gtk, that does not exist.
> 
> In my case I had to change that link to point on /usr/bin/unison-gtk

I suspect you have unison-gtk 2.48.4-4 (or earlier) installed. Can you
confirm that?

I would fix that by adding "Breaks: unison (<< 2.48.4-5~)" to
unison-2.48 and similarly to unison-2.48-gtk.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane