Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.26 Severity: critical When aptitude-gtk appeared in experimental I installed it just to test, but kept aptitude itself from sid or testing. When the new version added a versionned dep on aptitude, I decided to remove it rather than upgrading aptitude itself to experimental. Then I was left with /usr/bin/aptitude non existent.
Looking at the new postinst I noticed the experimental packages now use alternatives, so I sorta replayed what had happenned: * at install time: # update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude /bin/ls 60 # ls -l /usr/bin/aptitude -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2113556 Nov 20 05:10 /usr/bin/aptitude # ls -l /etc/alternatives/aptitude lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 1 22:13 /etc/alternatives/aptitude -> /bin/ls It is dubious that --install would even not issue a warning that /usr/bin/aptitude was already there without being a symlink at first. I even think it should be made an error. * then at uninstall time: # update-alternatives --remove aptitude /bin/ls # ls -l /etc/alternatives/aptitude ls: cannot access /etc/alternatives/aptitude: No such file or directory # ls -l /usr/bin/aptitude ls: cannot access /usr/bin/aptitude: No such file or directory Unconditionnal removal of an unrelated file without any check was surely not wanted. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.8-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=french (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 7.2-1 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
