I see problems with dpkg-divert, but I also see work-arounds and room for discussions and improvements of individual packages. I don't think we need to say that "dpkg-divert" should be discouraged because of debian policy, nor do I see a need that we should require changes to packages that are functional because of diversions of configuration files by some other package.
Won't fix +1
Pre-Depends is really an easy work-around!!
I see problems with dpkg-divert, but I also see work-arounds and room for discussions and improvements of individual packages. I don't think we need to say that "dpkg-divert" should be discouraged because of debian policy, nor do I see a need that we should require changes to packages that are functional because of diversions of configuration files by some other package.