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Bug#1015883: /usr/bin/update-alternatives: update-alternatives: manualy selected choice is overriden by apt-get dist-upgrade

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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.20.11
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/update-alternatives
X-Debbugs-Cc: rz@linux-m68k.org

Dear Maintainer,

on my system I have both i386 and amd64 versions of Java. I used
update-alternatives to select am64 version while the proimary architecture
is i386. My configuration looked like

# update-alternatives --config java
There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

  Selection    Path                                         Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-i386/bin/java    1111      auto
mode
* 1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java   1110      manual
mode
  2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-i386/bin/java    1111      manual
mode

While doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" I saw following messages in the console:
update-alternatives: removing manually selected alternative - switching java to
auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-i386/bin/java to
provide /usr/bin/java (java) in auto mode

and the resulting configuration looked like this:


# update-alternatives --config java
There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

  Selection    Path                                         Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-i386/bin/java    1111      auto
mode
  1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java   1110      manual
mode
  2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-i386/bin/java    1111      manual
mode

My understanding of the manpage of update-alternatives is that once manual mode
is selected it should not be changed back to auto mode by an action like
updating
the package?
Or how else should I achieve the desired effect?

Best Regards
Richard


-- Package-specific info:
System tainted due to merged-usr-via-aliased-dirs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.8-4
ii  libc6        2.31-13+deb11u3
ii  liblzma5     5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1
ii  libselinux1  3.1-3
ii  tar          1.34+dfsg-1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u1

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt            2.2.4
pn  debsig-verify  <none>

-- no debconf information

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Bug#1015883: /usr/bin/update-alternatives: update-alternatives: manualy selected choice is overriden by apt-get dist-upgrade Richard Z <rz@linux-m68k.org> - 2022-07-23 02:10 +0200
  Bug#1015883: /usr/bin/update-alternatives: update-alternatives: manualy selected choice is overriden by apt-get dist-upgrade Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2022-07-27 02:20 +0200

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