On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:30:13AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, James Vega wrote: > > Since this potentially causes any *new* installs of packages using > > diversions to fail, I'm raising the severity to important. The current > > behavior will cause failed installs for packages that divert files in > > package-specific directories using the code snippets in Section G of > > policy. > > Can you check if the following patch is enough to resolve your problems? > > http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=d329b123b6d061df4b7a6dce938d6d9046b879ae > > I tend to think that it's not yet enough as it will still fail if the > destination directory doesn't exist while the file-to-be-diverted does.
You're right. It does still fail in this scenario, although I'm inclined to think that is a corner case. The example code in dpkg-divert(8) and policy place the diverted file in the same directory. Checking the lintian lab, the same is also true of all current preinst scripts. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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