[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#767822: xfce4-session: leaves alternatives after purge: /usr/bin/x-session-manager

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-01-11 14:07, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> I've juste uploaded, but I'm a bit concerned about the following lintian
> warnings:
> 
> W: xfce4-session: maintainer-script-should-not-use-update-alternatives-remove postrm:4
> W: xfce4-session: maintainer-script-should-not-use-update-alternatives-remove postrm:5

It's unclear what the best practice for update-alternatives is - bug
#71621 - there may be cases where the prerm is not called, so postrm
should be used additionally (as you did). I would ignore (but not
override) lintian here.

Andreas