Bug#535827: xterm: alternatives messed up

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>]

Package: xterm
Version: 243-1
Severity: normal

# apt-get install xterm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xterm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/487kB of archives.
After this operation, 1417kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package xterm.
(Reading database ... 128921 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xterm (from .../archives/xterm_243-1_i386.deb) ...
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x-terminal-emulator.
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x-terminal-emulator.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up xterm (243-1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative x-terminal-emulator.1.gz can't be slave of x-terminal-emulator: it is a master alternative.
dpkg: error processing xterm (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

this might be related to bug #400478.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-18         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.6.0-4        generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090530-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.2.1-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.5-2      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxft2                   2.1.13-3       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.5-3      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.0.1-2        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                     7.4+1      X11 utilities
ii  xutils                        1:7.4+3    X Window System utility programs m

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn  xfonts-cyrillic               <none>     (no description available)

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