On 2006-11-08 02:35:56 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > I tried to reproduce this by upgrading xterm from sarge to etch and > didn't get any dangling symlink. I tried an upgrade with xterm as the > only x-terminal-emulator package installed, as well as with xterm and > rxvt, and I also tried setting the link to uxterm manually before the > upgrade. This choice seems to be lost on upgrade (probably due to the > path change for *xterm), but I got no dangling symlink. > I'd appreciate your help in trying to understand how things went wrong > for you, and if it's still possible for them to go wrong in case of a > sarge->etch upgrade.
The machine no longer exists, but on another one, I've just changed the x-terminal-emulator alternative from /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper to /usr/bin/uxterm, and I also get a dangling symlink. ay:~> ll /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2003-07-18 22:14:13 /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz ay:~> ll /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz ls: /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: No such file or directory But there's the following symlink: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2006-11-08 02:45:07 /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1x.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/uxterm.1x.gz This is with xterm 210-3.1 (from testing). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)