Re: dpkg: overwriting file from other package fails despite diversion

2012-11-21 Thread gator_ml
On 2012-11-20 20:08, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-11-19 10:17 +0100, gator...@yahoo.de wrote: >> In order to be able to overwrite "foreign" files without triggering a >> conflict, I install diversions for the files in question. As described >> in the policy manual >> (http://www.debian.org/doc/deb

dpkg: overwriting file from other package fails despite diversion

2012-11-19 Thread gator_ml
For a pretty complex system modification I need to replace binaries from several other packages by modified versions. Because I'll need to easily reproduce these modifications and would like to keep things as transparent as possible, I wrapped the necessary changes into a Debian package (I don't wa