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: ----------- /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