/usr/bin/firefox and a diversion, wtf?

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi,

there’s one thing I do not understand.

The iceweasel package in wheezy ships /usr/bin/firefox as
a file (can be seen by inspecting the .deb) but at the same
time diverts /usr/bin/firefox.real to /usr/bin/firefox
whereas the former does not even exist (WTF?).

A coworker asks for the reason of this, because he put a
symlink to iceweasel as /usr/bin/firefox which got removed,
and I don’t get what’s going on (why is there a diversion
in preinst and where is this firefox.real thing?).

I’d normally locally divert firefox to firefox.dpkg-dist
now and put a symlink there, but I’m a bit scared of there
being a diversion already (which led to some fun in the
bash/dash/mksh circus).

Thanks for any advice,
//mirabilos
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