package: debhelper
severity: wishlist
Hello,
it would be nice if debhelper could handle the adding and removing of
dpkg-diversion.
Lets' consider one of my packages, unace-nonfree, as an example. At the
moment I have the following lines in the packages' preinst to add a
diversion to the free unace binary and manpage (there's similar code in
postrm, but I guess you get the point):
#!/bin/sh
set -e
case "$1" in
install)
dpkg-divert --package unace-nonfree --add --rename --divert \
/usr/bin/unace-free /usr/bin/unace
dpkg-divert --package unace-nonfree --add --rename --divert \
/usr/share/man/man1/unace-free.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unace.1.gz
;;
upgrade|abort-upgrade)
;;
*)
echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
#DEBHELPER#
exit 0
Now it would be nice if debhelper could automagically add these lines to
the appropriate files based on a helper-file called
unace-nonfree.diversions that would look similar to this:
/usr/bin/unace-free /usr/bin/unace
/usr/share/man/man1/unace-free.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/unace.1.gz
What do you think about this?
Cheers,
Fabian
PS: Another cool feature will be the handling of /etc/alternative!
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