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

[Daniel Hartwig]

2012/3/28 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
> I upgraded to the new 0.6.6.1 version today. While upgrading I got this :-
>

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

>
> 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 ? [snip] 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 ? )
>

Yes, that warning is expected.  The link group changed from the
previous release to include the man pages so update-alternatives
considers the (old) setting broken.

Does /usr/bin/aptitude still work?  And /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude.8.gz?