update-alternatives

["Tille, Andreas" <TilleA@rki.de>]

Hello,

shouldn´t *the default python* (tm) not do something like

   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python \
                   /usr/bin/python<the-default-python-tm> 10

?
I´ve just checked the situation on perl

/usr/bin> ls -l perl perl-5.6 perl5.6.1
-rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root       707644 22. Jun 11:04 perl
-rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root       707644 22. Jun 11:04 perl-5.6
-rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root       707644 22. Jun 11:04 perl5.6.1

we have three copies of the same binary in /usr/bin.  I havn´t dealt
with those stuff but I would consider this as a bug.  At least links
would be apropriate in my opinion.  I´d like to hear some words of
the experts (well this is not the perl list here, but I found it out
while checking a python problem which is the main target of my
question) before I file a bug report.

Kind regards

        Andreas.