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Bug#400478: marked as done (xterm: broken postinst handling of missing manpage alternative)

Your message dated Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:47:37 +0200
with message-id <20090916134737.GA3292@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr>
and subject line Re: Bug#400478: xterm: error on post-install
has caused the Debian Bug report #400478,
regarding xterm: broken postinst handling of missing manpage alternative
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Package: xterm
Version: 222-2
Severity: normal

With version 222-2 I get the following error on post-installation of the
package:

Preparing to replace xterm 222-2 (using .../archives/xterm_222-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xterm ...
Setting up xterm (222-2) ...
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz' to `/etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz': File exists
dpkg: error processing xterm (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  xterm


Regards,
Julien

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1               2.4.1-2     generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                      1:1.0.1-2   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                       1:1.0.1-3   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.3-4   X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                      1:1.0.2-4   X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                     1:1.0.1-2   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                      2.1.8.2-8   FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                      1:1.0.2-2   X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                       1:1.0.2-2   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

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On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:46:38 +0100, Julien Langer wrote:

> With version 222-2 I get the following error on post-installation of the
> package:
> 
> Preparing to replace xterm 222-2 (using .../archives/xterm_222-2_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xterm ...
> Setting up xterm (222-2) ...
> ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz' to `/etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz': File exists
> dpkg: error processing xterm (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   xterm
> 
Hi,

This bug was only relevant pre-etch release, so I'm going to close it
now.  sarge->etch and etch->lenny upgrades have never had this problem,
as far as I know.

Cheers,
Julien

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