Bug#71621: No policy on calling update-alternatives (was Re: update-alternatives)

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk> writes:

    Colin> On my system, there are no less than eight distinct ways
    Colin> used by packages to remove alternatives (excluding
    Colin> special-case conditions like that used by ae, and folding
    Colin> down the various ways used to express conditions on $1):

I had a proposal to replace these scripts with XML format. However, I
haven't got much feedback yet... 

I think the benefit of my proposal to this particular problem would be
that it allows the system administrator to setup the method used by
all packages, rather then each individual package maintainer. eg some
administrators may want to force the higher priority task to take
precedence, where as others may want to preserve the currently
installed value.

See http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~bam/debian/ for details of my
proposal.

PS: I will be away next week, so may be delayed in responding.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>