Re: Bug#194515: ITP: debdivert -- Debian packaging aid to create patch packages
> Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> wrote:
> > Ah, the main point of this package is to create a local ad-hoc package
> > which can coexist with its official package. Escpecially, I can manage
> > my temporary on-going improvement to some debian package as a debian
> > package. I didn't think to waste official debian packages because we
> > shouldn't upload this kind of patch packages to the official but merge
> > the patch to the official packages if we want to share them on public.
>
> The main question is "what on god's green earth does this do that
> dpkg-divert doesn't do?"
>
> Looking at the package description, it implies that it will in fact do a
> lot less than dpkg-divert unless you tell it otherwise.
This creates a fragment to use dpkg-divert. It checks all md5sums of
each package and lists files which we need to invoke 'dpkg-divert'.
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Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>
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