Bug#1138217: No alternatives registerd on GNU/Hurd

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Package: src:procps
Version: 2:4.0.4-7+hurd.1
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: hurd-i386
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]=20

The procps package on GNU/Hurd installs some binaries with a .procps
suffix:

/usr/bin/kill.procps
/usr/bin/ps.procps
/usr/bin/uptime.procps
/usr/bin/vmstat.procps

However, only vmstat gets registered as an alternative:

$ update-alternatives --list ps   =20
/bin/ps-hurd
$ update-alternatives --list uptime
/usr/bin/uptime-hurd
$ update-alternatives --list vmstat
/usr/bin/vmstat-hurd
/usr/bin/vmstat.procps
$ update-alternatives --list kill =20
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for kill

The missing registration for kill is a problem, since no other version
is provided. The built-in kill in the shell can be used, but if scripts
explicitly use /bin/kill or /usr/bin/kill they fail. This causes FTBFS
for packages that uses /bin/kill in the test scripts, see e.g.

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=3Dmyproxy

The package above built fine in December (including successful tests on
GNU/Hurd), but failed a binNMU now. So something seems to have happened
since then.

	Mattias

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