[Bug 428616] Re: "failsafe" login fails because konsole_4.3.1-0ubuntu1 lacks postinst script with 'update-alternatives' for x-terminal-emulator

[Ernst Kloppenburg]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 278722 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278722

This bug was changed to refer to 'kdebase', but I think it needs to be
changed back to 'konsole'.

Because this bug is about an error in the packaging of 'konsole' (as
stated above, Provides: x-terminal-emulator but missing update-
alternatives)

_One_ result of the bug is equal to the problems described in 278722
But this bug 428616 will also hit anybody else who relies on the presence of x-terminal-emulator when a package that 'Provides' it is installed.

Therefore this bug is not a duplicate of 278722.

To make this clearer I will delete the last two sentences of my bug
report that were only there to illustrate the severity of the bug.


** Summary changed:

- "failsafe" login fails because konsole_4.3.1-0ubuntu1 lacks postinst script with 'update-alternatives' for x-terminal-emulator
+ konsole_4.3.1-0ubuntu1 has 'Provides: x-terminal-emulator' but lacks postinst script with 'update-alternatives' for x-terminal-emulator

** Description changed:

- The 'konsole' package provides x-terminal-emulator (as seen from 'apt-
- cache show konsole' or in the 'control' file of the package)
+ The 'konsole' package 'Provides:' x-terminal-emulator (as seen from
+ 'apt-cache show konsole' or in the 'control' file of the package)
  
  But the package lacks the necessary postinst script that calls 'update-
  alternatives'.
- 
- This results in failure of graphical log when you select "failsafe" as
- session in kdm on a kubuntu system. Because it can't find 'x-terminal-
- emulator'.

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konsole_4.3.1-0ubuntu1 has 'Provides: x-terminal-emulator' but lacks postinst script with 'update-alternatives' for x-terminal-emulator
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428616
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