Bug#532739: metacity: uninstallable due to postinst error

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 11 juin 2009 à 10:28 +0200, Julien Langer a écrit :
> Package: metacity
> Version: 1:2.26.0-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Currently metacity is uninstallable due to the following postinst error:
> update-alternatives: error: alternative x-window-manager.1.gz can't be slave of
> x-window-manager: it is a master alternative.

What is x-window-manager.1.gz pointing to? This was most likely caused
by a broken package providing the alternative.

Dpkg people: given the number of packages providing x-window-manager, I
guess it would be better to work around it in dpkg, wouldn’t it?

Cheers,
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