[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#517182: Bug#517182: tcl8.5: no I _really_ don't want my alternatives to get messed up.

[Sergei Golovan]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder at debian.org> wrote:
> During today's upgrade:
>
>    Preparing to replace tcl8.5 8.5.3-2 (using .../tcl8.5_8.5.6-2_amd64.deb) ...
>    Removing manually selected alternative - switching to auto mode
>    Unpacking replacement tcl8.5 ...
>    Preparing to replace tk8.5 8.5.3-4 (using .../tk8.5_8.5.6-2_amd64.deb) ...
>    Removing manually selected alternative - switching to auto mode
>
> And of course wish/tclsh pointing to the 8.5 versions are gone and my gitk is
> ugly again.

It's indeed a bug in prerm script where alternative is removed
unconditionally. I'll fix it in the next upload, but since on the next
upgrade the old prerm script will be called, you'll loose the
alternative one more time.

-- 
Sergei Golovan