Debian Bug report logs - #16845
Same diversions problem again (fwd)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Same diversions problem again (fwd)

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:35:03 -0500 (EST)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.19

Looks like a dpkg bug/misfeature.

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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:17:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Same diversions problem again
Resent-Date: 8 Jan 1998 15:05:32 -0000
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>From a recent installation run:

Unpacking ppp-pam (from .../net/ppp-pam_2.3.2-2.deb) ...
Adding `diversion of /usr/sbin/pppd to /usr/sbin/pppd.ppp-pam by ppp-pam'
Preparing to replace ppp 2.3.2-1 (using .../net/ppp_2.3.2-2.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ppp ...
(Noting disappearance of ppp-pam, which has been completely replaced.)

This looks like the same problem that gnuchess and gnuchess-book had.
Note that both ppp-pam and gnuchess-book contain *only* the file
they divert.

My guess is that the diversion does not update the file-list cached by
the currently-running dpkg, and that causes dpkg to think that ppp
has overwritten all of ppp-pam.

Richard Braakman


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Message #10 received at 16845-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: scott.ellis@firstunion.com

To: 16845-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug unreproducable in current environment

Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:14:14 -0500

This bug is ancient and dpkg-divert has gone through considerable changes
since then (and packages always contain more than one file now).  I expect
this bug has been fixed for some time and I'm going to close it and get it
out of the way.

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