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Bug 2756

Summary:	TDE on Debian Stretch is borked, since update-alternatives is no longer in sbin on fresh installs
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	bugs.trinitydesktop.org
Component:	debian	Assignee:	Slávek Banko <slavek.banko>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	bugs.trinitydesktop.org, bugwatch, slavek.banko
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.1.x [Trinity]
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Other
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	2696

Description bugs.trinitydesktop.org 2017-03-14 16:25:58 CDT

update-alternatives is in /usr/bin, with a ln -s from /usr/sbin.

However, that has now changed.  On a fresh install, and on an upgraded box, the 'update-alternatives' symlink has been removed from /usr/sbin.

I couldn't even remove tde (without using dpkg --force and such), until I created a symlink.  Then TDE behaviour allowed for an uninstall.

I'm not sure why the link is gone... but, there you are.

konqueror at least is affected.  There were a few other packages, 3 or 4 that also borked.

If you need a list of packages please let me know.  I can reinstall and at least see what explodes.

Comment 1 Slávek Banko 2017-03-16 12:06:34 CDT

It seems that this would affect only packages:

+ konqueror-trinity
+ konsole-trinity
+ ksmserver-trinity
+ twin-trinity

You can confirm that?

Comment 2 bugs.trinitydesktop.org 2017-03-16 14:46:29 CDT

I believe so.

My apt log shows this:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 konqueror-trinity
 konsole-trinity
 ksmserver-trinity
 twin-trinity

And, I was able to re-kick after I made the symlink.

There may be other packages, but those ones hard failed.  EG, would some fail silently?

Don't think so though...

Comment 3 Slávek Banko 2017-03-16 14:56:20 CDT

(In reply to bugs.trinitydesktop.org from comment #2)
> I believe so.
> 
> My apt log shows this:
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  konqueror-trinity
>  konsole-trinity
>  ksmserver-trinity
>  twin-trinity
> 
> And, I was able to re-kick after I made the symlink.
> 
> There may be other packages, but those ones hard failed.  EG, would some
> fail silently?
> 
> Don't think so though...

I looked at all the files in the tde-packaging and no other has been used full path for update-alternatives.

Building updated packages is now underway. Soon should be available...

Comment 4 Slávek Banko 2017-03-21 13:42:18 CDT

Please, you're done testing with actual packages from the Preliminary Stable Builds repository? Can be this bug report closed?

Comment 5 bugs.trinitydesktop.org 2017-03-23 18:21:20 CDT

I haven't had time to test, but I'll close.

If issues persist, I'll reopen.

It'll be a couple of weeks before I can try re-installing Trinity again... 

Thanks for the updated packages though!