Hi! 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. Thanks, Guillem
