Package: notify-osd Version: 0.9.18-1 Severity: minor User: [email protected] Usertags: edos-file-overwrite
Hello, notify-osd.preinst calls dpkg-divert and redirects its output to /dev/null. Please do not do that, I find it irritating when the diversion is not reported to stdout. I noticed this when I checked for packages that share a file (see http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/), and it took me some time to understand why no errors occurs when one tries to install notify-osd together with notification-daemon since my script didn't find a trace of a diversion happening. In almost all cases that I have seen dpkg-divert is called in maintainer scripts without output redirection, so this seems to be common practice. -Ralf. -- Ralf Treinen Laboratoire Preuves, Programmes et Systèmes Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France. http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
