Bug#349462: xterm: wrong update-alternatives man page x-terminal-emulator.1.gz

[Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@ens-lyon.org>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:37:32 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> Package: xterm
> Version: 208-3.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> dixsept:~> man x-terminal-emulator
> man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink

Hi,

I tried to reproduce this by upgrading xterm from sarge to etch and
didn't get any dangling symlink.  I tried an upgrade with xterm as the
only x-terminal-emulator package installed, as well as with xterm and
rxvt, and I also tried setting the link to uxterm manually before the
upgrade.  This choice seems to be lost on upgrade (probably due to the
path change for *xterm), but I got no dangling symlink.
I'd appreciate your help in trying to understand how things went wrong
for you, and if it's still possible for them to go wrong in case of a
sarge->etch upgrade.

Thanks,
Julien