Sorry, not a bug, local problem on my system. I had installed the Ipkg packaging system and it added its own update-altenatives to /usr/local/bin which was being picked up before the dpkg one.
Sorry, not a bug, local problem on my system. I had installed the Ipkg packaging system and it added its own update-altenatives to /usr/local/bin which was being picked up before the dpkg one.