On Sat, 05 May 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> Is this some kind of insurance against problems in the upgrade? When you
Yes. I think most of the packages I've seen that use diversions do not
remove them in prerm, but rather in postrm purge. I'm not sure¸ though.
Still, as long as diversions are never left behind after a upgrade or purge,
there is no problem.
> The main situation where you need to be concerned about old versions of
> your package is where you've previously made a mistake in the maintainer
> scripts.
Yes.
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