From 3ccf5d42249293fe98b9a71b22cd0804cd1248c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillem Jover Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:39:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document in its man page that update-alternatives requires cooperation from all packages dealing with the specific file. Closes: #396338 Thanks to Tomas Pospisek . --- debian/changelog | 3 +++ man/C/update-alternatives.8 | 13 ++++++++++++- man/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index bcea3cab..226cbae8 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ dpkg (1.13.25~) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Guillem Jover ] * Fix year 2018 in changelog for Michael Alan Dorman's upload in 1998, which was confusing the changelog parsers. + * Document in its man page that update-alternatives requires cooperation + from all packages dealing with the specific file. Closes: #396338 + Thanks to Tomas Pospisek . [ Updated dpkg translations ] * Chinese (Traditional, Asho Yeh) diff --git a/man/C/update-alternatives.8 b/man/C/update-alternatives.8 index d4b37f1c..cf46b4a1 100644 --- a/man/C/update-alternatives.8 +++ b/man/C/update-alternatives.8 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. There is NO WARRANTY. You can .\" find the GNU GPL in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on any Debian system. -.TH update\-alternatives 8 "2006-05-23" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities" +.TH update\-alternatives 8 "2006-11-24" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities" .SH NAME update\-alternatives - maintain symbolic links determining default commands . @@ -176,6 +176,17 @@ option in order to return to the automatic mode. If you want to configure non-interactively you can use the .I \-\-set option instead (see below). +.PP +Different packages providing the same file need to do so +.BR cooperatively . +That is - the usage of +.B update\-alternatives +is +.B mandatory +for all involved packages in such case - it is not possible to +override some file in a package that does not employ the +.B update\-alternatives +mechanism. . .SH TERMINOLOGY Since the activities of diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index baa01660..c6d94bdf 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-11-24 Tomas Pospisek + + * C/update-alternatives.8: Document that it requires cooperation from + all packages dealing with the same file. + 2006-10-07 Nicolas Francois * po4a/dpkg-deb.1/dpkg-deb.1.cfg: The PO are now in UTF-8, specify the -- 2.39.5