On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > older versions of the totem-gstreamer and totem-xine added an > alternative in the postinst. Somewhere around 2.22, it was changed to > add two new slave alternatives. > > However, it looks like the slave alternatives are completely ignored, > and nothing is done until the master alternative is unregistered and > registered again with its new slaves. > > It would be pretty annoying for users to remove the existing alternative > before registering the new one, since it would break customizations. > This is why I consider it a bug in update-alternatives, which should add > new slave alternatives (and maybe also remove unused ones) as it sees > fit.
update-alternatives has been rewritten in 1.15.0 (in experimental) and it's most probably fixed, it would be nice if you could check. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
