also sprach Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> [2012.09.30.0056 +0200]:
> > preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet
> > that was a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth.
> 
> Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly
> manually placing some file in /usr/include/libfm is pretty ugly,
> but I would still certainly not expect that upgrading the libfm
> package would remove it.

Do not mess with /usr, that is exclusively the domain of dpkg. Any
file you place there may well be overridden. Use dpkg-divert if you
have to.

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