Bug#335502: /usr/bin/{vim,gvim} symlinks not created

Stefano Zacchiroli zack at debian.org
Tue Oct 25 08:44:54 UTC 2005


tags 335502 + moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Eduard Bloch wrote:
> after todays Sid upgrade the vim installation broke. The new symlinks
> in /usr/bin to the "alternatives" links were just missing. I think it
> comes from some internal breakage in update-alternatives, I have seen
> it doing strange things before. Using update-alternatives now does not
> recreate the symlinks either.

I tried the upgrade on several unstable boxes and all went smoothly.
Could you please provide more info and/or how to reproduce the bug?

Info that could help can be:
- version of dpkg (owner of update-alternatives)
- version you upgraded vim from
- ls -l /usr/bin/vi*
- ls -l /etc/alternatives | grep vi
- cat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/vi*
- ... add your hint here ;-)

Many thanks for your report.
Cheers.

-- 
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