Re: Bug#2466: dpkg-divert --remove --rename doesn't work

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Mark W. Eichin writes ("Bug#2466: dpkg-divert --remove --rename doesn't work"):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.1.0
> 
> Note that the postrm is:
> dpkg-divert --package xterm-color --divert /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.mono \
> 	    --rename --remove /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> and the preinst is:
> dpkg-divert --package xterm-color --divert /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.mono \
> 	    --rename --add /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

You must *only* invoke these when your package is first installed, or
actually removed, not when it is upgraded.  Check $1 in your scripts
(see maintainer-script-args.text).

Ian.

(I'm closing this bug report.)