can't upgrade vim

[Hubert Figuiere]

Binary package hint: vim

My pbuilder for feisty fails to update because vim package fails to upgrade.

Setting up vim-common (7.0-164+1ubuntu1) ...

Setting up vim-tiny (7.0-164+1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ru.KOI8-R/man1/vi.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/vi.ru.KOI8-R.1.gz: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing vim-tiny (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up vim-runtime (7.0-164+1ubuntu1) ...
Processing /usr/share/vim/addons/doc

Setting up vim (7.0-164+1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/man1/view.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/view.ru.UTF-8.1.gz: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing vim (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Confirmed.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This breaks upgrades for some people, milestoning it.

[Hubert Figuiere (hub)]

It has worked since. I think a later version fixed it.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in:

vim (1:7.0-164+1ubuntu4) feisty; urgency=low

  * Include /usr/share/man/ru.{KOI8-R,UTF-8}{,/man1} in the
    vim-common package which will help with some upgrade problems (LP
    #84906). These directories should be retained until at least the
    first Ubuntu LTS release after 6.06, to smooth upgrades from Dapper.