Hi,
just recently I installed gnuchess-book and gnuchess.
I used something like 'dpkg -i gnuchess-book_* gnuchess_*'.
When the packages were configured I got the message: 'note the
disappearence of gnuchess-book, which has been completely
replaced'. In fact, there's no sign of gnuchess-book anymore.
All maintainer scripts and data files from /var/lib/dpkg/info are
gone. Only the chess opening library file of the package (>1MB) is
left, but doesn't belong to any package (and therefore it's not
removed by purging a certain package).
When I use 'dpkg -i gnuchess_* gnuchess-book_*' (ie. in an alternate
sequence) this doesn't happen.
I found, that this is caused by a divertion in gnuchess-book.
1) Should there really be a diversion here?
2) Why are there two packages at all? Yes, you can install gnuchess
without the large library, but then the two packages should
remain two packages.
3) If I remember correctly, gnuchess-book doesn't contain any docs
(or copyrights). Should this be reported as a bug? I guess, this is
related to the above problem, but is it covered by the policy?
4) A more general question: How are diversions introduced: must there
be an aggreement of the involved package maintainers or an
agreement of "all" developers?
Thanks,
Ulf
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