On Sat, 05 May 2001, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > I am currently packaging gfax. In the Debian Policy it is specified > that one, willing to divert an executable, should contact the original > executable's maintainer. This is there mainly to make sure you damn well know what you're doing when playing with diversions, and to make sure other people that might affected by them are warned. AFAIK anyway. > In my case the lpr provided by gfax is a wrapper to provide the lpr > -Pfax command line. Should I contact both the LPRng and BSD lpr > managers ? Also, I would like to know why it should be done, so that I > can understand further. You should contact them. Also, please understand one thing about diversions: once you add one, you must keep the code to *remove* it around. Even if stop doing a diversion, you will need to move the code to remove it from the *rm scripts to the postinst script (to remove it on upgrades from old packages) -- and you'll stay with that cruft in your postinst for as long as the package is in Debian (or for two full Debian stable releases after the one where the diversion was removed, whichever happens sooner). That said, good luck with your package. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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