konsole_4.3.1-0ubuntu1 has 'Provides: x-terminal-emulator' but lacks postinst script with 'update-alternatives' for x-terminal-emulator
Bug #428616 reported by
Ernst Kloppenburg
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #278722: Fail Safe login broken due to missing xterm.
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kdebase (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
The 'konsole' package 'Provides:' x-terminal-emulator (as seen from 'apt-cache show konsole' or in the 'control' file of the package)
But the package lacks the necessary postinst script that calls 'update-
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This bug was changed to refer to 'kdebase', but I think it needs to be changed back to 'konsole'.
Because this bug is about an error in the packaging of 'konsole' (as stated above, Provides: x-terminal-emulator but missing update- alternatives)
_One_ result of the bug is equal to the problems described in 278722
But this bug 428616 will also hit anybody else who relies on the presence of x-terminal-emulator when a package that 'Provides' it is installed.
Therefore this bug is not a duplicate of 278722.
To make this clearer I will delete the last two sentences of my bug report that were only there to illustrate the severity of the bug.