Package: notify-osd
Version: 0.9.18-1
Severity: minor
User: trei...@debian.org
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/



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