Author: guillem
Date: 2006-11-24 02:39:51 +0100 (Fri, 24 Nov 2006)
New Revision: 600
Modified:
trunk/debian/changelog
trunk/man/C/update-alternatives.8
trunk/man/ChangeLog
Log:
Document in its man page that update-alternatives requires cooperation
from all packages dealing with the specific file. Closes: #396338
Thanks to Tomas Pospisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog 2006-11-24 01:19:49 UTC (rev 599)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog 2006-11-24 01:39:51 UTC (rev 600)
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Fix year 2018 in changelog for Michael Alan Dorman's upload in 1998,
which was confusing the changelog parsers.
+ * Document in its man page that update-alternatives requires cooperation
+ from all packages dealing with the specific file. Closes: #396338
+ Thanks to Tomas Pospisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
[ Updated dpkg translations ]
* Chinese (Traditional, Asho Yeh)
Modified: trunk/man/C/update-alternatives.8
===================================================================
--- trunk/man/C/update-alternatives.8 2006-11-24 01:19:49 UTC (rev 599)
+++ trunk/man/C/update-alternatives.8 2006-11-24 01:39:51 UTC (rev 600)
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version. There is NO WARRANTY. You can
.\" find the GNU GPL in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on any Debian system.
-.TH update\-alternatives 8 "2006-05-23" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities"
+.TH update\-alternatives 8 "2006-11-24" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities"
.SH NAME
update\-alternatives - maintain symbolic links determining default commands
.
@@ -176,6 +176,17 @@
If you want to configure non-interactively you can use the
.I \-\-set
option instead (see below).
+.PP
+Different packages providing the same file need to do so
+.BR cooperatively .
+That is - the usage of
+.B update\-alternatives
+is
+.B mandatory
+for all involved packages in such case - it is not possible to
+override some file in a package that does not employ the
+.B update\-alternatives
+mechanism.
.
.SH TERMINOLOGY
Since the activities of
Modified: trunk/man/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/man/ChangeLog 2006-11-24 01:19:49 UTC (rev 599)
+++ trunk/man/ChangeLog 2006-11-24 01:39:51 UTC (rev 600)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-11-24 Tomas Pospisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * C/update-alternatives.8: Document that it requires cooperation from
+ all packages dealing with the same file.
+
2006-10-07 Nicolas Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* po4a/dpkg-deb.1/dpkg-deb.1.cfg: The PO are now in UTF-8, specify the
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