On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 06:52:35PM +0930, Ron wrote: > This one was kind of fun ... upgrading an up to date buster machine to > bullseye, I hit the conffile prompt I normally expect to see for vim: > > Setting up vim-common (2:8.2.2434-3) ... > > Configuration file '/etc/vim/vimrc' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ... > > > So I do what I always do, and reach for vimdiff to merge the new changes > in vimrc ... only this time, it tells me: > > # vimdiff /etc/vim/vimrc /etc/vim/vimrc.dpkg-new > -bash: vimdiff: command not found > > and vim's not there either! > > # vim > -bash: vim: command not found > > Which of course it is. But it's a symlink through /etc/alternatives, > and a quick look shows they're now (almost) all dangling ...
Thanks for catching this and the suggested cleanup. Since vim Depends on vim-gtk3, which Depends on vim-common, vim-common gets "configured" first. This means the alternatives still haven't been re-targeted to vim.gtk3 when the conffile prompt happens. I do think adding the alternatives cleanup to preinst is worth doing, but I'm not sure how to handle the specific problem you ran into. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB
