severity 451872 normal
thanks
On 2007-11-19 18:41 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Discussion in #433567 is confusing. The bug report says:
>
> > Installing emacs and removing emacs-snapshot caused this alternative
> > to become auto mode,
>
> This is normal behavior: If you remove your preferred alternative,
> update-alternatives *has* to set the mode to auto, or you will be left
> with a dangling symlink...
IIRC, I thought that update-alternatives would do this, as jidanni
indicated. But apparently it does not, although that was supposedly
implemented long ago in the fix for #132632.
Another possibility would be that there is a bug in the emacs-snapshot
removal scripts, although I can't see any (the alternatives need to be
deregistered before the files themselves are removed).
> However, I'm still in manual mode, and I have dangling symlinks!
>
> IMHO, this bug is more than a wishlist, in particular because
> "update-alternatives --config emacs" doesn't do anything (it says
> "Nothing to configure.", but this is plainly wrong).
I agree, normal seems to a more adequate severity. Currently,
update-alternatives --config exits immediately without even checking
whether the only alternative is in correct shape.
Regards,
Sven
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