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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Sven Joachim wrote:
> There is also the rather worrisome problem that users who have zsh as
> their login shell will not be able to log in during that period.

I don't think that users should expect a system to be pretty usable
during a dist-upgrade.

> > A few rough ideas to make this easier for the user:
> >
> > * Use Pre-Depends in zsh + zsh-common relationship
> > * Maybe add some hack in the preinst script
> 
> How about adding a symlink /bin/zsh4 -> zsh5 in the zsh package?  Not
> extremely pretty, but it should work.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a look at it.

Another thing which I haven't tested, but which very likely mitigates
this issue pretty well is to run apt, apt-get or aptitude with "-o
APT::Immediate-Configure-All=true".

> In the long run, /{usr,}/bin/zsh should probably not be handled by
> alternatives anymore since the zsh-beta package is gone, but now might
> not be the best time to implement this.

Yes.

		Regards, Axel
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