Guillermo:
But the 7 .do scripts I talked about are executed (indirectly) by the package/compile script from the source package, and they just create symbolic links. To be precise, they are executed by the source/all.do script, because they are named in 'echo' commands that feed their output to the 'xargs -r redo-ifchange' invocation.
Hmmm. You're right. Maybe that should be deferred. I shall think about this.
As the release notes said, some of these are works in progress. I was expecting hiccoughs in the reorganized external config import, which I had to rush to meet the deadline. (I am also expecting that we have have to work out what the non-Debian equivalents for dpkg-divert are, if any. It turns out that dbus-daemon has got worse, which has had knock-on effects.) Get me those Gentoo equivalences, and I can tweak this stuff for 1.38.
