[Bug 1483923] Re: dpkg-divert breaks nginx installation

[Robie Basak]

AIUI, it isn't appropriate for a package to modify another package's
behaviour from under its feet in this way. Debian Policy Appendix G (not
formally policy I don't think) says: "Do not attempt to divert a
conffile, as dpkg does not handle it well.". Though
https://wiki.debian.org/ConfigPackages does talk about this method.

Another cleaner approach would be to have your johnny-dep package
provide its own configuration file and init script somewhere else, and
then depend on a package that provides the nginx binaries but no
configuration. I don't know if nginx provides such packages currently,
but if changes are required there I'd recommend that they be done in
Debian rather than carrying an Ubuntu delta.

Up to Thomas though.

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