It seems that this bug (originally reported for rxvt-unicode 9.02-1+b1) is the only reason for removing rxvt-unicode from testing, see http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rxvt-unicode/news/20091004T163944Z.html
This seems not justified, and the better solution is in my opinion to simply not offer urxvtcd as x-terminal-emulator alternative. Note that this bug refers to urxvtc (probably due to referring to an old version of rxvt-unicode), which is not even offered as x-terminal-emulator, but I assume that urxvtcd is meant. Note also that urxvt is not affected by this bug, and this is in fact the program which should be used as x-terminal-emulator alternative. I therefore suggest to resolve this bug trivially via: diff -ur rxvt-unicode-9.06/debian/rxvt-unicode-base.postinst rxvt-unicode-9.06.new/debian/rxvt-unicode-base.postinst --- rxvt-unicode-9.06/debian/rxvt-unicode-base.postinst 2009-10-26 10:51:09.675321975 +0000 +++ rxvt-unicode-9.06.new/debian/rxvt-unicode-base.postinst 2009-10-26 11:11:32.863929518 +0000 @@ -12,11 +12,6 @@ x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/urxvt 11 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz \ x-terminal-emulator.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/urxvt.1.gz - update-alternatives \ - --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator \ - x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/urxvtcd 11 \ - --slave /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz \ - x-terminal-emulator.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/urxvtcd.1.gz fi diff -ur rxvt-unicode-9.06/debian/rxvt-unicode-base.prerm rxvt-unicode-9.06.new/debian/rxvt-unicode-base.prerm --- rxvt-unicode-9.06/debian/rxvt-unicode-base.prerm 2009-10-26 10:51:09.744315298 +0000 +++ rxvt-unicode-9.06.new/debian/rxvt-unicode-base.prerm 2009-10-26 11:11:09.328207253 +0000 @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ if [ "$1" = remove ]; then update-alternatives --remove rxvt /usr/bin/urxvt update-alternatives --remove x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/urxvt - update-alternatives --remove x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/urxvtcd fi #DEBHELPER# diff -ur rxvt-unicode-9.06/debian/rxvt-unicode-ml.postinst rxvt-unicode-9.06.new/debian/rxvt-unicode-ml.postinst --- rxvt-unicode-9.06/debian/rxvt-unicode-ml.postinst 2009-10-26 10:51:09.680321491 +0000 +++ rxvt-unicode-9.06.new/debian/rxvt-unicode-ml.postinst 2009-10-26 11:11:49.102362818 +0000 @@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/urxvt 11 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz \ x-terminal-emulator.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/urxvt.1.gz - update-alternatives \ - --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator \ - x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/urxvtcd 11 \ fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org