Re: Suggesting new method to handle dpkg diversions

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Frank Küster writes ("Re: Suggesting new method to handle dpkg diversions"):
>> The problems that I have run into with diversions is that some random
>> package diverted a file in my package.  I had no idea this was the case
>> until I got a bug report because my package failed to configure with
>> that diverted file in place.
>
> I don't think you should divert something without talking to the other
> package maintainer.  Having packages play core wars on the user's
> system is not the right answer.
>
> Perhaps this should be made clearer in policy, but it seems obvious to
> me: if you're going to mess with someone's package you should talk to
> them about it !
>
>> This might be mainly a social problem.  But if there was a possibility
>> to list diverted files distribution-wide (similar to
>> http://www.de.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents), it might
>> help.  
>
> Indeed.
>
> Ian.

For starters does reportbug list diversions when reporting a bug?

MfG
        Goswin