Bug#422979: dpkg: update-alternatives doesn't create the symlink

2007-05-09 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.1 Severity: normal Hello, I've just updated gs-common which did swtch the handling of ps2pdf to update-alternatives. gs-comomn.postinst does include the following lines, called under the configure target: update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ps2pdf \

Bug#422979: dpkg: update-alternatives doesn't create the symlink

2007-05-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
severity 422979 critical stop This appears to break pretty much any interesting package using alternatives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#422979: dpkg: update-alternatives doesn't create the symlink

2007-05-09 Thread Frank Küster
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: severity 422979 critical stop This appears to break pretty much any interesting package using alternatives. Including fakeroot and therefore pbuilder which uses it. In other words, building in a chroot with the standard setup used by probably most

Bug#422979: dpkg: update-alternatives doesn't create the symlink

2007-05-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, It is not just fakeroot. debootstrap itself is broken, so you can't even get a new root file system. debootstrap fails at: , | I: Configuring base-files... | I: Configuring libblkid1... | I: Configuring e2fsprogs... | I: Configuring gzip... | I: Configuring dpkg... | I: