Bug#703022: debian-policy: Appendix G: Diversion example faulty (doesn't work for conffiles)

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 14.03.2013 17:34, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The last time I looked at this (which was several years ago), 
> diverting
> conffiles had enough problems that it was tempting to just say that 
> it
> didn't work reliably.  I wonder if we should explicitly recommend 
> against
> diverting conffiles, or if some of those problems have been cleaned 
> up.

fwiw, Policy 10.7.4 does say "[t]wo packages that specify the same file 
as a conffile must conflict. [...] Neither alternatives nor diversions 
are likely to be appropriate in this case; in particular, dpkg does not 
handle diverted conffiles well" but it's possibly not so easy to spot.

Regards,

Adam