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

[Aaron Schrab]

At 06:44 -0400 10 Oct 2014, I wrote:
>At 12:12 +0200 10 Oct 2014, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
>>That's how I committed it last night:
>>
>>https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/zsh.git/commit/?id=438969ffb81fd46b514d42a77b74890a7b4f778f
>
>Shouldn't the #! line use zsh5 explicitly?  Otherwise it doesn't seem 
>like this would solve the problem it's just adding another layer of 
>indirection to get to the /bin/zsh which will still be broken during 
>the upgrade process.

Actually, during the upgrade /bin/zsh would be pointing back to the 
script itself giving an infinite loop.