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bsdmainutils package

bsdmainutils should use update-alternatives for hd symlink

Bug #935891 reported by pi-rho on 2012-02-19

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bsdmainutils (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

bsdmainutils uses update-alternatives for its write and from utilities, but uses a symbolic link (hd -> hexdump). It would be better to use update-alternatives to manage this symbolic link.

I'm attaching a patch that would add the appropriate update-alternatives command to debian/postinst. The patch also adds commands to remove usr/bin/hd and rename the hd man page to bsd-hd (the update-alternative command slaves bsd-hd.1.gz -> hd.1.gz if it is selected).

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pi-rho (pi-rho) wrote on 2012-02-19:

use update-alternatives to manage /usr/bin/hd Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain)

updated patch for completeness

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-02-19:

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