On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Michael Neuffer wrote:
> > Hum, that should not happen. You should always be able to
> > update-alternatives to fix stuff.
>
> Not when you manage to get into circular dependencies.
You will have to be more specific because this doesn't mean anything to
me.
> > You won't have to do this in the future, update-alternatives no longer
> > allows installation of broken alternatives and fixes stuff itself for most
> > cases.
>
> When did that change get rolled out?
With squeeze (dpkg >= 1.15).
> Manually fixing up dpkg status & info files becomes an ingrained habit
> over the years. The Debian & Ubuntu bleeding egde will cut you every now
> and then with problems that force manual intervention.
While this can be true for {post,pre}{inst,rm}, it's completely
wrong for most others status files (except maybe the statoverride one when
user/groups disappear).
Cheers,
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