Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dpkg
Ubuntu: 8.10 dpkg: Installed: 1.14.20ubuntu4 /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --remove does not clear up the primary link if you remove the last item in an alternatives set if the alternatives set is set to manual mode. It does however clean up any slave links. This leaves untidy dangling symlinks lying around. The workaround at present is to set the alternative to auto mode prior to removal if 'update-alternatives --list <group>|wc -l' is equal to 1. If there is a reason for this behaviour it should be documented in the man page. ** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - update-alternatives does not remove clean up link if set to manual + update-alternatives does not remove link when last alternative is removed if set to manual -- update-alternatives does not remove link when last alternative is removed if set to manual https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254382 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs