[Aptitude-devel] update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/bin/aptitude-curses because link group aptitude is broken. - is this expected ?

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,
I upgraded to the new 0.6.6.1 version today. While upgrading I got this :-

$ sudo apt-get install aptitude aptitude-doc-en
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  aptitude aptitude-doc-en
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/4,470 kB of archives.
After this operation, 552 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: changelogs for deb-home
(Reading database ... 429180 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace aptitude 0.6.5-1 (using .../aptitude_0.6.6-1_amd64.deb) ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed
D000001: cmpversions a=`0:0.6.5-1' b=`0:0.2.8.1-1' r=4
Unpacking replacement aptitude ...
D000001: process_archive updating info directory
Preparing to replace aptitude-doc-en 0.6.5-1 (using
.../aptitude-doc-en_0.6.6-1_all.deb) ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed
Unpacking replacement aptitude-doc-en ...
D000001: process_archive updating info directory
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 changed doc-base file...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up aptitude (0.6.6-1) ...
D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative
/usr/bin/aptitude-curses because link group aptitude is broken.
Setting up aptitude-doc-en (0.6.6-1) ...
D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles
Processing triggers for menu ..

I like to see verbose output and hence you see the above. I am mildly
concerned by this line, fourth last :-

update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative
/usr/bin/aptitude-curses because link group aptitude is broken.

Is this expected ?  I do know that aptitude-gtk is thrown out (so as
to speak) because nobody has either the skills or the motivation to
support it and that's ok. What I am concerned about is the
aptitude-curses bit, is this behavior valid or this is something that
needs to be fixed (either manually or maybe in another package upload
soon ? )

Looking forward for answers.
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