Norbert Preining wrote:
> There is NO way to decide on "sane"/"non-broken" in every case. We can
> ONLY care for dangling symlinks which WE have installed, not for
> anything else.

I know that. There was no dangling symlink. There was no symlink.
Period.

Dangling symlinks are not in question. To whoever brought this up: go
report another bug.

>> My system is a simple standalone laptop. As are the majority of
>> installs, I presume. I would expect the install scripts to be able to
>> handle this situation.
> 
> It could be that the code already handles this, but the postinst script
> was stopped prior to executing the update-alternatives code due to an
> error in fmtutil-sys.

Then that is reason for the symptoms I reported. Feel free to close the
bug whenever this is fixed.

/JÅ

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