The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 55e3ca8a4e1222e7201126c527b21bd502f02b19
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Apr 14 21:36:09 2013 +0200

    debian: Remove u-a, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride compat symlinks
    
    There are no packages using absolute paths in the Debian archive anymore.

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index d27a0fc..60ed5c1 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
        debian/dpkg.preinst \
        debian/dpkg.prerm \
        debian/dpkg.logrotate \
-       debian/dpkg.links \
        debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides \
        debian/dselect.cfg \
        debian/dselect.docs \
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 13fd820..c1b212b 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -94,8 +94,6 @@ TODO
 
  * We should set our own obstack_alloc_failed_handler.
 
- * Remove compatibility symlinks
-   /usr/sbin/{update-alternatives,dpkg-divert,dpkg-statoverride}.
  * Remove install-info wrapper.
 
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9139d1f..28c1f0c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ dpkg (1.17.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     usually outdated, and everyone should be using dpkg-architecture anyway.
   * Add musl-linux support to ostable and triplettable.
     Requested-by Kevin Bortis <[email protected]>.
+  * Remove update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride
+    compatibility symlinks under /usr/sbin/.
 
  -- Guillem Jover <[email protected]>  Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:21:00 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.links b/debian/dpkg.links
deleted file mode 100644
index 429ab15..0000000
--- a/debian/dpkg.links
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-usr/bin/dpkg-divert usr/sbin/dpkg-divert
-usr/bin/dpkg-statoverride usr/sbin/dpkg-statoverride
-usr/bin/update-alternatives usr/sbin/update-alternatives

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