Your message dated Thu, 8 Apr 2021 19:25:57 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#981222: update-alternatives: please provide a way to
change a master alternative into a slave one
has caused the Debian Bug report #981222,
regarding update-alternatives: please provide a way to change a master
alternative into a slave one
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.20.7.1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I made an error using master alternatives to install some manpages, but
I can't change this because update-alternatives refuse to replace a
master alternative into a slave one during upgrade. Could you provide a
way to do this in debian/alternatives file ?
Cheers,
Xavier
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-4
ii libc6 2.31-9
ii liblzma5 5.2.5-1.0
ii libselinux1 3.1-2+b2
ii tar 1.32+dfsg-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 2.1.18
pn debsig-verify <none>
-- no debconf information
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Hi!
On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 01:24:49 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 22:52:41 +0100, Xavier Guimard wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.20.7.1
> > Severity: normal
>
> > I made an error using master alternatives to install some manpages, but
> > I can't change this because update-alternatives refuse to replace a
> > master alternative into a slave one during upgrade. Could you provide a
> > way to do this in debian/alternatives file ?
>
> That file is managed by debhelper, update-alternatives has no direct
> support for that now. Adding support for that kind of swap natively in
> u-a I think would imply some effort, while this does not seem like a
> very common occurrence.
>
> The correct and simper fix here is IMO to add manual handling in the
> maintainer scripts to check whether the alternative is wrong, and
> remove it, before the debhelper snippet adds the correct one.
>
> I'm thus inclined to close this report.
Doing this now.
Thanks,
Guillem
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