Bug#403967: sarge->etc: ended up with /usr/bin/vim binary from 1.5 years ago

[James Vega]

severity 401000 important
merge 401000 403967
thanks

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:12:23AM +0100, Willi Mann wrote:
> Important because the behaviour is confusing and the way to resolve it is
> by no means on the hand. Maybe even RC as it could it hurt the reputation of
> debian as the "Upgrades-Always-Work" distribution.
> [snip dpkg -l]
> but:
> 
> $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/vim.org
> Umleitung durch vim-gtk von: /usr/bin/vim
> Umleitung durch vim-gtk zu: /usr/bin/vim.org
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/vim
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1411096 2005-07-30 12:45 /usr/bin/vim
> 
> after some guessing I removed vim-gtk, removed vim and installed vim.
> Then I got:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/vim
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-12-20 23:56 /usr/bin/vim -> /etc/alternatives/vim
> 
> and vim works as before. I guess there's something wrong with the
> alternatives handling.
> 
> I have a typescript from my apt-get dist-upgrade run. I could look for
> relevant output of the vim upgrade if you like.

I've attempted to reproduce this (as noted in #401000) but haven't had
much luck.  I can take another look at this after the holidays.  Maybe
your log will point out something that I missed before.

James
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