Bug#71621: Policy on update-alternatives still needed

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:00:27PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, 2008-03-12, 10:00:
> >I recently ran into this yet again, with a set of packages (scim
> >et al) calling update-alternatives --remove in 'prerm upgrade',
> >and thereby breaking user configuration on every upgrade. I do not
> >think that the issue has got significantly better in the 7.5 years
> >since I originally reported this bug.
> 
> I didn't get better in 12 years either!
> 
> I've just tested 665 packages that use update-alternatives.
> 122 of them removed an alternative on upgrade.

Could you report bugs ?
Maybe this test should be included in piuparts.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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