Bug#20409: rxvt: postinst/prerm use /usr/bin/X11
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu) writes:
> In article <[🔎] 87k9999mt3.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com> you wrote:
> > I think it should be permissible for scripts to use
> > /usr/bin/X11/, as that should be updated correctly.
> I think only the user should use /usr/bin/X11. When the transition
> comes, we'll need to upload new packages anyway, and they can use
> /usr/X11R7/bin or whatever. If all our packages left /usr/bin/X11
> alone, we might be able to make X11R6 and X11R7 coexist (But I don't
> see why you'd want to :)
[ I'll repeat some of the arguments that I've sent to the bug report. ]
The alternatives mechanism was not created for the package maintainer,
it was created for the local system administrator (the Debian user)
to customize her system.
What will happen when the local system administrator, preferring rxvt-xpm,
the alternative version of rxvt with XPM support, follows my example
and sets a link from /etc/alternatives/rxvt to /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt-xpm?
Since this link is now no longer touched by update-alternatives, the
user will be left with a dangling symlink once rxvt-xpm moves out of
/usr/X11R6/bin.
Brian
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