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Bug#419145: marked as done (selecting xterm as x-terminal-emulator alternative breaks man page link)

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and subject line Bug#419145: selecting xterm as x-terminal-emulator alternative breaks man page link
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Package: xterm
Version: 1:222-1
Severity: normal

If I have x-terminal-emulator set to gnome-terminal, the
x-terminal-emulator man page works. If I then use update-alternatives
--config to set it to xterm, the link is broken:

joey@kodama:/usr/share/man/man1>man x-terminal-emulator
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink
No manual entry for x-terminal-emulator
joey@kodama:/usr/share/man/man1>ls -l x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Jun  2  2006 x-terminal-emulator.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
joey@kodama:/etc>ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1x.gz 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 13 18:45 /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1x.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz

So the problem is that xterm registers an alternative with 1x in the name,
while the man page symlink links to one with 1 in the name.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.5-1      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1                2.4.2-1.2  generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                       1:1.0.3-2  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-5      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                        1:1.0.2-2  X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                       1:1.0.3-3  X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.3-2  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.1.12-2   FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                       1:1.0.3-1  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.5-2  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                      1.0.1-2    Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                      1:7.1.ds.3-1 X Window System utility programs

-- no debconf information

-- 
see shy jo

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On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 18:55:43 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

> If I have x-terminal-emulator set to gnome-terminal, the
> x-terminal-emulator man page works. If I then use update-alternatives
> --config to set it to xterm, the link is broken:
> 
> 
> So the problem is that xterm registers an alternative with 1x in the name,
> while the man page symlink links to one with 1 in the name.
> 
It doesn't do that anymore:

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator \
  x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/xterm 20 --slave \
  /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz x-terminal-emulator.1.gz \
  /usr/share/man/man1/xterm.1.gz

Cheers,
Julien

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