Bug#648965: comixcursors-righthanded: update-alternatives not used
Followup-For: Bug #648965 Control: severity -1 serious Setting the severity to serious as this is a regression from squeeze. I don't know if comixcursors is useful even without alternatives - in that case this can be lowered again. Note for testers: upgrading from comixcursors/squeeze to comixcursors-righthanded/wheezy will have the alternatives set up in squeeze still installed - so first purge the squeeze package and install the wheezy package afterwards. The new alternatives code in the maintainer scripts is totally broken: * postinst uses find /etc/X11/cursors -regex '.*ComixCursors-.*/index\.theme$' to discover the themes, but that pattern would only match something in /usr/share/icons * preinst could call u-a with a missing argument (if REMOVED_LIST would not be empty) update-alternatives --remove $ICONDIR/$theme That should be update-alternatives --remove x-cursor-theme $ICONDIR/$theme And why is there a rm -f $ICONDIR/$theme following it? If this is about removing obsolete conffiles, please have a look at dpkg-maintscript-helper * prerm (only comixcursors-righthanded) uses a pattern that would match the cursor themes installed by the other variants (e.g. -lefthanded), too, if it were applied in the correct directory, and would therefore unregister *all* comixcursors-* themes, not just the ones from comixcursors-righthanded. ComixCursors- is a prefix of ComixCursors-Opaque, ComixCursors-LH, ComixCursors-LH-Opaque. Right now it unregisters exactly the alternatives set up by the postinst: NONE. I noticed this while investigating the missing removal of the alternatives during a piuparts distupgrade squeeze-wheezy + purge test. Andreas comixcursors_0.7.2-2.log.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Bug#648965: comixcursors-righthanded: update-alternatives not used
Package: comixcursors-righthanded Version: 0.7.2-2 Followup-For: Bug #648965 Experienced exactly same problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (710, 'stable-updates'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash comixcursors-righthanded depends on no packages. comixcursors-righthanded recommends no packages. Versions of packages comixcursors-righthanded suggests: pn comixcursors-lefthanded none pn comixcursors-lefthanded-opaque none pn comixcursors-righthanded-opaque none -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#648965: comixcursors-righthanded: update-alternatives not used
Package: comixcursors-righthanded Version: 0.7.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was installing the cursor theme package and I am using the update- alternatives approach for choosing my cursor theme. However during install of the package the themes are not added to the list of alternatives. I helped myself by manually adding the alternatives to the list like this. for i in `dpkg -L comixcursors-righthanded | grep .theme | grep X11`; do update-alternatives --install /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme x-cursor- theme $i 10; done , but I think, this should be done by the package itself. Regards, Andre Naujoks -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash comixcursors-righthanded depends on no packages. comixcursors-righthanded recommends no packages. Versions of packages comixcursors-righthanded suggests: pn comixcursors-lefthanded none pn comixcursors-lefthanded-opaque none pn comixcursors-righthanded-opaque none -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
