I do not observe the OP's effect on my system (Gutsy-Hardy), although my
package is also 0.18-2ubuntu1
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mlocate.postinst contains
if [ $1 = configure ]; then
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/locate locate /usr/bin/mlocate 80 \
...
And as a result,
$ ls -l
I should have asked myself why no one else was complaining...
Apparently, some upgrade must have gone wrong. After dpkg-reconfiguring,
the locate symbolic link is present.
** Changed in: mlocate (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
--
mlocate package does not offer a locate alias
