Bug#279252: #279252 uxterm should not override my locale

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:04:20AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > In that case, it's not a bug against xterm, but against whatever
> > meta-package owns "x-terminal-emulator".
>
> > From xterms postinst:
>
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm 20 (...)
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm 30 (...)
>
> I don't see how anything but xterm is supposed to change this situation.
> AFAIK no package "owns" an alternative per se, but I might be wrong here; my
> understanding of this was that by default, whatever alternative has the
> highest priority is selected as the alternative in use.

I would regard that as a defect in the alternatives scheme, since package 
maintainers can otherwise choose to set arbitrary priorities for their 
favorite packages (and doing so late in the release cycle leads to 
competitive issues).

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