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Re: diversions



On Sat, 05 May 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> Is this some kind of insurance against problems in the upgrade? When you

Yes. I think most of the packages I've seen that use diversions do not
remove them in prerm, but rather in postrm purge. I'm not sure¸ though.

Still, as long as diversions are never left behind after a upgrade or purge,
there is no problem.

> The main situation where you need to be concerned about old versions of
> your package is where you've previously made a mistake in the maintainer
> scripts.

Yes.

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  "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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