On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 15:28 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:19:20PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:57 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > >> dpkg has made the md5sum.textutils binary from the coreutils binary > >> unavailable in its original path. A package must not remove files from > >> another package. > >> > >It's diverting it, not removing it. > > No, it's removing it. There is no /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils once the > buggy version of dpkg is installed. > If you can't tell the difference between "rm" (unlink) and "mv" (rename) you _really_ shouldn't be maintaining coreutils!
> A diversion should be used when a package wants to install a different > copy of an existing binary, not to make an existing binary unavailable. > Actually, both are perfectly valid uses of diversions. > I don't want md5sum.textutils to go away, regardless of whether coreutils > provides /usr/bin/md5sum. > So stop waving your dick about and upload a package that matches your liking. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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