Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > severity 160848 minor > thanks > > Summary: > > The immediate problem is that the dpkg-divert > man page does not document the fact that --remove > moves the diverted file back to the original filename, > even if the --rename option is not given. > > Additionally, there is a wish that the behavior be > changed so that --remove does not do this unless the > --rename option is also specified.
The behaviour of --remove in potato and previous releases has always been consistent with --add, that is, renaming is not done. The current behaviour was introduced in woody. This causes silent breakage of scripts that previously worked correctly. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
