Bug#743951: openssh-client: upgrading from 1:6.0p1-4 to 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u1 fails in configure phase with error in update-alternatives

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:20:57PM +0200, Martin Lucina wrote:
> update-alternatives: unknown argument `--quiet'
> 
> Usage: update-alternatives --install <link> <name> <path> <priority>
>        update-alternatives --remove <name> <path>
>        update-alternatives --help
> <link> is the link pointing to the provided path (ie. /usr/bin/foo).
> <name> is the name in /usr/lib/opkg/alternatives/alternatives (ie. foo)
> <path> is the name referred to (ie. /usr/bin/foo-extra-spiffy)
> <priority> is an integer; options with higher numbers are chosen.

Where does your update-alternatives come from?  That really doesn't look
like the standard version at all.

  which update-alternatives
  dpkg -S "$(which update-alternatives)"
  dpkg -l (whatever package was listed by the previous command, if any)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]