[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#1027288: Bug#1027288: tigervnc-common: orphaned alternatives (vncpasswd, vncpasswd.1.gz)

[Jakub Wilk]

* Joachim Falk <joachim.falk at gmx.de>, 2022-12-30 15:00:
>>tigervnc-common used to install alternatives for "vncpasswd" and 
>>"vncpasswd.1.gz". Now it no longer does, but it didn't clean up the 
>>old ones:
>>
>>    $ file /usr/bin/vncp* /usr/share/man/man*/vncp* | grep -w broken
>>    /usr/bin/vncpasswd:                 broken symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/vncpasswd
>>    /usr/share/man/man1/vncpasswd.1.gz: broken symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/vncpasswd.1.gz
>
>tigervncpasswd moved to tigervnc-tools.
>
>Normally, tigervnc-tools should auto install on upgrade from TigerVNC 
>1.11.
>
>Maybe you upgraded with
>
>apt upgrade --no-install-recommends
>
>Or only had tigervnc-common installed without anything else from 
>TigerVNC?

I had also tigervnc-viewer installed (and no other TigerVNC packages). 
But tigervnc-viewer has tigervnc-tools only in Suggests.

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Jakub Wilk