[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#707760: Bug#707760: zsh: Alternatives broken for long time during upgrade from zsh4 to zsh5

[Axel Beckert]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi Aaron,

Aaron Schrab wrote:
> Today I upgraded my zsh package from 4.3.17-1 to 5.0.2-3, along with a 
> somewhat large number of packages.  Because there were quite a few 
> packages being upgraded at once, there was a significant amount of time 
> between when the new version of zsh was unpacked to replace the old 
> version and the when the postinst script was run.  During this time, my 
> system was left in a somewhat broken state due to many things trying to 
> run /bin/zsh which was still pointing at the (already removed) /bin/zsh4 
> through the alternatives system.

Not nice, indeed. I though have no immediate idea what could have
caused this. I though think that this issue, if not caused by other
issues, is quite important to fix.

So if anyone else is running into similar issues, please report them
to this bug report, too. Just send an e-mail to 707760 at bugs.debian.org.

		Regards, Axel
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