Bug#1130174: wesnoth: Upgrade fail to version 1.18.6-2

[Vincent Cheng]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo unreproducible

Hi Davide,

On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 10:01 AM Davide Prina <Davide.Prina at null.net> wrote:
>
> Package: wesnoth
> Version: 1:1.18.6-2
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Davide.Prina at null.net
>
> Hi,
>
> in the system upgrade wesnoth failed to upgrade.
>
> The error I get (/var/log/apt/term.log) is:
>
> Setting up wesnoth-1.18 (1:1.18.6-2) ...
> update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/share/man/it/man6/wesnoth.6.gz is already managed by wesnoth.it.6.gz (slave of wesnoth)
> dpkg: error processing package wesnoth-1.18 (--configure):
>  old wesnoth-1.18 package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit status 2
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wesnoth:
>  wesnoth depends on wesnoth-1.18 (>= 1:1.18.6-2); however:
>   Package wesnoth-1.18 is not configured yet.

I cannot reproduce this in a clean chroot/container, either upgrading
from 1:1.18.6-1 -> 1:1.18.6-2, or from 1:1.18.5-1 (current
stable/trixie) -> 1:1.18.6-2. There aren't any piuparts failures for
this package either.

Are you trying to do something unsupported like upgrading across
multiple stable releases all at once? Can you share your last entries
in e.g. /var/log/apt/history.log ?

Regards,
Vincent