Bug#1057184: gedit: gnome-text-editor alternatives broken after installation of 46.1-3

[Daniel Vacek]

Package: gedit
Version: 46.1-3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: neelx.g at gmail.com

The installation reported these warnings:

Setting up gedit (46.1-3) ...
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative
/usr/bin/gedit because link group gnome-text-editor is broken
update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor with a
link


The resulting state looks like this:

$ ll /usr/bin/gedit /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor /etc/alternatives/gnome-text-
editor* /usr/share/man/man1/g{nome-text-,}edit{or,}.1.gz 2>/dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Dec  1 03:36 /etc/alternatives/gnome-text-editor
-> /usr/bin/gedit*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     30 Dec  1 03:36 /etc/alternatives/gnome-text-
editor.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/gedit.1.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  14568 Nov 17 14:01 /usr/bin/gedit*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 559664 Sep 18 14:11 /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1188 Nov 17 14:01 /usr/share/man/man1/gedit.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     40 Jun  8  2016 /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-text-
editor.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/gnome-text-editor.1.gz

It looks like gnome-text-editor no longer supports alternatives.

Shall we just drop it as well or shall gnome-text-editor add support?

--nX


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FORCED_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gedit-common                  46.1-3
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0               1.78.1-5
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                3.24.38-6
ii  gir1.2-gtksource-300          299.0.4-3
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0              1.51.0+ds-3
ii  gir1.2-peas-1.0               1.36.0-3
ii  gir1.2-tepl-6                 6.8.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas     45.0-2
ii  iso-codes                     4.15.0-1
ii  libc6                         2.37-12
ii  libcairo2                     1.18.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0           2.42.10+dfsg-3
ii  libgedit-amtk-5-0             5.8.0-4
ii  libgedit-gtksourceview-300-0  299.0.4-3
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1         1.78.1-5
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.78.1-4
ii  libgspell-1-2                 1.12.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.24.38-6
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.51.0+ds-3
ii  libpeas-1.0-0                 1.36.0-3
ii  libtepl-6-4                   6.8.0-2
ii  python3                       3.11.4-5+b1
ii  python3-gi                    3.46.0-1
ii  python3-gi-cairo              3.46.0-1
ii  python3.11                    3.11.6-3

Versions of packages gedit recommends:
ii  yelp    42.2-1
ii  zenity  3.44.2-1

Versions of packages gedit suggests:
ii  gedit-plugins  46.0-2

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