Re: overwriting files

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
Hamish Moffatt wrote on Fri Oct 12, 2001 um 10:34:06PM:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:10:47PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Packages must not overwrite other packages' files. You can perhaps use
> > the "alternatives" mechanism. See update-alternatives(8).
> 
> Diversions (dpkg-divert) would be appropriate in this case.

OTOH only one package can apply diversion on a file, this would not work
with multiple packages. This method is good for only one package
_strongly_ depending on another one, but not for more than two packages,
and sometimes old packages diverting stuff in another one break some
things.

> Any package can divert another's files. However, all packages must
> agree to use alternatives to manage a particular file.

And what is the problem? The maintainers should work together anyhow.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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