Bug#446462: /usr/bin/vim is left broken when alternative is manual and points to vim-full

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Sat Oct 13 15:43:32 UTC 2007


On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:25:49AM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:21:12AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:43:54AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > $ LANG=C update-alternatives --display vim
> > > vim - status is manual.
> > 
> > Uhm, are you sure this bug does apply only when the alternatives status
> > is manual? It happened to me as well and I'm quite sure mine
> > alternatives were set to "auto".
> 
> I specifically tested this upgrade both on my system and with piuparts
> (which I'm running again right now) and everything worked fine.

*sigh* I don't know what made piuparts succeed before but it is
definitely exhibiting the reported behavior now.  Looks like it's time for
another update-alternatives hack.

James
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