On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Paul Wise wrote:
It would be great to merge this branch, for now I've gone for a
workaround calling the cdbs Makefile before dh_installdeb.
The dh_divert stuff kinda ties into the declarative diversions stuff:
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/DeclarativeDiversions
The diversions stuff in config-package-dev seems like a workaround for
dpkg being buggy with conffiles:
http://bugs.debian.org/363524
http://bugs.debian.org/492222
Yup, DeclarativeDiversions seems like the right long-term answer, but dpkg
doesn't currently support it (as far as I know?), and a bunch of
config-package-dev users want support on old Debian/Ubuntu versions, so it
won't be obsolete even when dpkg gets that support. It seems likely that
we should have config-package-dev end up using declarative diversion
support when that lands, but I don't think anyone's thought about
designing that transition.
And yes, most of why config-package-dev diverts files in favor of a
symlink to a new file, instead of to the new file itself, is to be more
robust to dpkg.
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