Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Severity: wishlist We had to fix some older alternatives breakage from a package we took over, and used update-alternatives --display to see whether we needed to do anything. Unfortunately,
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin xdvi.bin - Status ist auto. Link verweist zur Zeit auf /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin - Priorität 30 Gegenwärtig »beste« Version ist /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin. # which is impossible to parse (at least not if we think about all the other languages). This showed up in #438551, and we fixed it by prepending LC_ALL=C to our call to u-a, but it would be nice if there was an interface to query update-alternative's status with respect to a particular alternative. Something which doesn't change with localization, and hardly with time (and if it does, gets an entry in NEWS.Debian). Regards and thanks, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dpkg recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
