Comment 4 for bug 1309709

Indeed, nothing the galternatives package is supposed to do is working.
  There's a combo box that says "Manual"/"Auto", changing it gets immediately reverted.
  There are radio buttons, clicking on them gets immediately reverted
  There are add and delete buttons, none of them do anything

This basically renders the package completely useless. I think it should either be fixed or removed from trusty. As it is, it leads users to think that there's something useful in that program, when there's not.