Bug#42870: marked as done ([GUIDELINE] every alternative should be usable)
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From: Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net>
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Subject: update-alternatives and missing alternatives
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Since I was thinking about dpkg, I've decided to pass along a minor peeve
with the alternatives mechanism. I don't know if this belongs to dpkg
documentation or policy or just to common wisdom, but I hope you won't mind
routing it.
The request is that packagers ensure, wherever possible, that an alternative
be easily usable when not the highest priority alternative, ie without being
linked from the generic name. Several packages seem to assume that they
will be the only alternative installed (or at least used), and do not make
it convenient to use the package when a higher priority alternative is also
installed.
For example, the package navigator-smotif-461 installs an alternative for
/usr/X11R6/bin/netscape. The alternative is
/usr/lib/netscape/461/navigator/navigator-smotif . If I also have
navigator-smotif-408 installed, I have
/usr/lib/netscape/408/navigator/navigator-smotif , which is a lower priority
alternative. Since the actual binary isn't in my PATH, I can't conveniently
run the lower priority navigator. This is annoying and inconsistent with
the principal that users might legitimately want to use any of the
alternatives.
I filed a bug against the package and the packager added symlinks in
/usr/X11R6/bin called navigator-smotif-461, etc (although he didn't make
these the alternatives, which would be preferable), so now any version can
be used. I intend to file bugs against other packages (kaffe and jdk1.1 are
the ones I just noticed). So the problem seems fairly common.
I hope this can be added to some documentation somewhere.
Thanks,
Andrew
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:45:26 +0200
From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
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Subject: Has been fixed for more than six month
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Hi,
this bug was set to the status "fixed" more than six month ago, so I'm
closing it now. For an announcement of this, see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2004/debian-policy-200403/msg00042.html
Cheers,
Andi
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