On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 14:42:02 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I don't think it seems like a good idea to let the caller insert this
> kind of bogus diversion, dpkg itself will try to do the rename on unpack
> which would mess the system up anyway (but I've not though about this long
> enough). So it would seem better at first sight to just abort on --add.

Hmm thinking about it, this does not make much sense. As such diversion
is legitimate and would be equivalent to one w/o --rename, what might be
questionable is the time it gets inserted, so I guess not doing the
rename might be the right thing to do, I'll ponder about it a bit more
after lunch.

thanks,
guillem



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