[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#768079: Bug#768079: zsh: fails to configure if /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On a system with everything in /usr[1,2], i.e. /bin is a symlink to
> /usr/bin, zsh fails to configure:
> 
> ,----
> | Setting up zsh (5.0.7-3) ...
> | update-alternatives: using /bin/zsh5 to provide /bin/zsh (zsh) in auto mode
> | update-alternatives: error: unable to install `/usr/bin/zsh.dpkg-tmp' as `/usr/bin/zsh': No such file or directory
> | dpkg: error processing package zsh (--configure):
> |  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> |  zsh
> `----
> 
> I guess update-alternatives does not like the fact that the /bin/zsh
> alternative and its slave /usr/bin/zsh are at the same place.

Reading this comment and https://bugs.debian.org/807185, I wonder if
this is not something, that update-alternatives should generally fix
in its --slave handling instead of each affected package individually.

Cc'ing the Dpkg Developers.

		Regards, Axel
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