Bug#160848: severity 160848 minor
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> 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.
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