Bug#1001390: xterm / uxterm / lxterm suddenly missing from alternatives
Package: xterm
Version: 370-1
Severity: normal
After upgrading xterm to the most recent package in xterm,
suddenly the x-terminal-emulator alternative was pointing
to gnome-terminal instead of uxterm (before the upgrade).
Even worse, xterm and uxterm are apparently no longer even
registered with the alternatives mechanism.
I checked the debian changelog, and it didn't state any
related change.
So I conclude this is a bug and xterm / uxterm / lxterm
should of course still show up in the alternatives, as it
has always been.
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator on unstable:
-----------
/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper
40
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-terminal.1.gz
-----------
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator on Debian 10:
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/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
/usr/bin/koi8rxterm
20
/usr/share/man/man1/koi8rxterm.1.gz
/usr/bin/lxterm
30
/usr/share/man/man1/lxterm.1.gz
/usr/bin/uxterm
20
/usr/share/man/man1/uxterm.1.gz
/usr/bin/xterm
20
/usr/share/man/man1/xterm.1.gz
-----------
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_DIE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.32-5
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2
ii libfreetype6 2.11.0+dfsg-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.10-1
ii libtinfo6 6.3-1
ii libutempter0 1.2.1-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-2+b1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1.1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1
ii libxft2 2.3.2-2
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-2
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1
ii libxt6 1:1.2.0-1
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2.1
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.7+5
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>
-- no debconf information
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