On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:27:07PM +0100, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote: > >The prerm script of courier-mta does not remove two manpage > >alternatives. The following patch corrects the problem:
> >--- courier-mta.prerm.orig 2007-02-09 10:24:09.896439231 +0000 > >+++ courier-mta.prerm 2007-02-09 10:27:47.419548587 +0000 > >@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ > > if [ "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" ]; then > > for binary in lockmail preline; do > > update-alternatives --remove $binary /usr/bin/$binary > >+ update-alternatives --remove $binary.1 \ > >+ /usr/share/man/man1/$binary.courier.1.gz > > done > > fi > Thank you very much for your patch. > However, how do you justify the serious severity ? Appendix F says > nothing about a "must". The justification is simply the definition of package removal, I'm afraid. On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:26:31PM +0100, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote: > First of all, this update-alternatives never worked very well for courier, > don't know why. > The manpage says: <snip discussion of slave links> > So update-alternatives should remove these manpage links by itself, right ? Yes, if these alternatives were slave links, they should have been removed with the master. But note that the alternative removal Tim has suggested above is for a different alternative name than the one actually used by the current slave alternative; e.g., "preline.1.gz" vs. "preline.1". Tim, what was the first version of courier-mta you had installed before trying to remove it? It's possible an older version didn't do the slave links right, in which case this is a lower-severity bug (cleaning up after breakage in an obsolete version of the package). I think there have also been bugs in update-alternatives' own handling of slave links at some point in the past. :/ That would likewise not be an RC problem for courier-mta. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
