Re: RFC: declaritive diversions

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Robert Collins writes ("RFC: declaritive diversions"):
> I don't have a proposed syntax at this point, but I was thinking a
> control file in the source such as debian/PACKAGENAME.diversions would
> be a good starting point - if thats able to record everything thats
> needed, even if the binaries stay as they are (doing diversions in the
> maintainer scripts) for now for compatibility this would improve things.

Ideally the setup should allow the same packages to declare diversions
both ways.  This would make the transition a lot easier.

Ian.