Debian Bug report logs - #812252
less not any more registered as "pager" alternative

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Achim Gaedke <achim.gaedke@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: less not any more registered as "pager" alternative

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:24:19 +1300

Package: less
Version: 481-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have re-installed my debian testing desktop from scratch and wondered why I have
difficulties to navigate the manual pages. It uses /usr/bin/pager which is
managed by the alternatives system. So I tried to establish my preferred choice:

# sudo update-alteratives --config pager

doesn't feature less. So I conclude the package less does not register with the
alternatives system correctly.

Please fix this. If less is considered too buggy to be default, please decrease
its priority appropriately.

Many thanks (right now in busy sysadmin mode, otherwise there would be a patch, sorry)

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages less depends on:
ii  debianutils  4.5.1
ii  libc6        2.21-6
ii  libtinfo5    6.0+20151024-2

less recommends no packages.

less suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 812252@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <812252@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: less not any more registered as "pager" alternative

Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:51:15 +0100

Package: less
Version: 481-2
Followup-For: Bug #812252

Hello,

I guess the culprit is that the source package has both debian/postinst and
debian/less.postinst. dpkg-buildpackage picks up the latter, but the logic
to register the alternative for pager is in the former only. Probably
this is related to #694051 and #767928.

Best regards
Uwe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages less depends on:
ii  debianutils  4.5.1
ii  libc6        2.21-6
ii  libtinfo5    6.0+20151024-2

less recommends no packages.

less suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #15 received at 812252@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe+debian@kleine-koenig.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <812252@bugs.debian.org>, 812252-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#812252: less not any more registered as "pager" alternative

Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:00:49 +0100

On 01/24/2016 07:51 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Package: less
> Version: 481-2
> Followup-For: Bug #812252
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I guess the culprit is that the source package has both debian/postinst and
> debian/less.postinst. dpkg-buildpackage picks up the latter, but the logic
> to register the alternative for pager is in the former only. Probably
> this is related to #694051 and #767928.

And the hotfix is

 sudo update-alternatives --quiet --install /usr/bin/pager pager \
             /bin/less 77 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/pager.1.gz \
             pager.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz


Best regards
Uwe

Message #23 received at 812252@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frederik Möllers <frederikmoellers@posteo.de>

To: 812252@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#812252: less not any more registered as "pager" alternative

Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:16:27 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi,

I've created a patch which moves the update-alternatives commands to the
correct scripts and which also implements the strategy mentiones in
message 5 of bug #694051. Applying it to the source directory should
solve all problems related to these two bugs.

Cheers,
Frederik

[less-update-alternatives.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #34 received at 812252@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 812252@bugs.debian.org

Subject: less: diff for NMU version 481-2.1

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:03:16 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Control: tags 812252 pending

Dear maintainer,

I've prepared an NMU for less (versioned as 481-2.1) and uploaded it to
DELAYED/5.  Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer.

This patch is similar in intent to that provided by Frederik Möllers
four weeks ago, but I did the reconciliation the other way round (i.e.
moving the contents of debian/less.postinst into debian/postinst etc.
rather than vice versa), since the package-name-less files are
longer-standing and since this resulted in a much shorter and
easier-to-read patch.

I care about this because I'm starting to get reports about this
directed to me as man-db maintainer, and it obviously makes a difference
to how usable man(1) appears to be out of the box.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

[less-481-2.1-nmu.diff (text/x-diff, attachment)]

Message #41 received at 812252-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 812252-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#812252: fixed in less 481-2.1

Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:19:39 +0000

Source: less
Source-Version: 481-2.1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
less, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 812252@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated less package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:51:48 +0000
Source: less
Binary: less
Architecture: source
Version: 481-2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description:
 less       - pager program similar to more
Closes: 812252
Changes:
 less (481-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Reconcile multiple postinst scripts so that less registers a pager
     alternative again (closes: #812252).
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