[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: update-alternatives and Octave packages

[Colin Ingram]

On 2/10/06, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> wrote:

> It might be possible to write a script (called, say,
> /usr/bin/octave-update-alternatives) which will be called from the
> postinst scripts of both octave2.* and octave2.*-headers packages.  This
> script would install the alternatives with the appropriate slave links
> according to the presence or absence of the octave2.*-headers in the
> system.  I have not yet tested this idea, though, so I do not know if it
> really works.  I will give a try next week, unless someone else beats me
> on that.
>

would it be bad form to directly edit /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/octave?