Package: mksh, usrmerge Severity: normal Installing mksh on a system with usrmerge installed, that is, / merged into /usr fails:
update-alternatives: using /bin/mksh to provide /bin/ksh (ksh) in auto mode update-alternatives: error: unable to install '/usr/bin/ksh.dpkg-tmp' as '/usr/bin/ksh': No such file or directory Which is obvious, because /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mksh depends on: ii libc6 2.19-22 mksh recommends no packages. Versions of packages mksh suggests: pn ed <none> -- no debconf information -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you.