On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:18:06PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > From a user point of view, I was expecting the alternative to be updated > by the call to dpkg-reconfigure, so it would be nice if the postinst > script was doing this automatically. Maybe this could be made optional, > through a user prompt such as "Do you want to make this installation of > MATLAB the default?" (only displayed if there are already installed > alternatives).
Thanks for your detailed report -- it makes a lot of sense. I'll look into it as soon as I get a chance -- patches welcome, of course. BTW: Since you are not only a user, but also an octave-* packaging guru I want to mention that there is an open invitation to co/team-maintain this package! Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org