Re: RFC: declaritive diversions
Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> wrote:
> Ian and I have chatted a few times about diversions in packages. It
> seems like it would be easier to look for packages that should divert
> (and don't), or do (and perhaps shouldn't :)) if the diversions were
> declared in the package rather than being done by turing complete
> code :).
>
> This is a long-promised email to kick start discussion about this.
Many thanks! I never liked the way it's currently done (in particular
when I find one more package diverting one more of *TeX*'s files without
giving us maintainers a hint), and I very much look forward to a
control-file way to do it.
> 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,
I don't understand the workings of dpkg-divert enough to make a
suggestion here...
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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