Bug#399024: vim: Upgrade fails because of missing man page directory

[James Vega]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:40:46PM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 11:11:50AM -0700, Larry Lade wrote:
> > Package: vim
> > Version: 1:7.0-164+1
> > Followup-For: Bug #399024
> > 
> > 
> > Confirmed.
> > 
> > This bug appears in packages vim, vim-gnome, and vim-gtk.
> > 
> > Note this bug also occurs when trying to REMOVE the packages in question. 
> > 
> > --Begin output--
> > 
> > Setting up vim (7.0-164+1) ...
> > update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/man1/editor.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor.ru.UTF-8.1.gz: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error processing vim (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> 
> This is interesting since the postinst script for 1:7.0-164+1 doesn't
> have ru.UTF-8 anywhere in it.  I'm guessing this is because the previous
> versions did and we're only removing alternatives on "prerm remove" not
> "prerm upgrade".  I'll confirm this and should be able to get a new
> upload which fixes it this weekend.

I'm unable to reproduce this problem.  I've tried through both an
"aptitude upgrade" and "apt-get upgrade" from 1:7.0-158+1 to
1:7.0-164+1.  Do you know which version you were upgrading from when
this happened?

James
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