Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.23
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
firefox-esr has a diversion of /usr/bin/firefox; and package firefox-esr
must be installed for dependency resolution; however I actually need
to use a package of firefox that doesn't have a .dpkg
So I try dpkg-divert /usr/bin/firefox
Nope!
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
All variants of dpkg-divert that remotely made sense to try.
I tried reading the source code to determine if I could safely knock
the check out. This was inconclusive as I don't understand it well enough
to tell what would happen.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Frustration.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
let go of /usr/bin/firefox so I could add symlink
/usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1
ii libc6 2.24-10
ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2+b1
ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b1
ii tar 1.29b-1.1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 1.4.1
pn debsig-verify <none>
-- no debconf information
