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Bug#483418: debian-policy: Not limit dpkg-divert to install but valid also for upgrade in app. G



Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> writes:

>         I think it is time to drop the appendices from the policy manual
>  proper, and at least put them into a separate document (obsolete dpkg
>  documentation), or move them into dpkg itself, since these appendices
>  are not normative, and unmaintained, they should be part of dpkg
>  extended documentation, since they certainly are not policy.

I agree.  I can look at breaking them out for the next release of Policy,
and then once they're in a separate document, it's easier to talk to the
dpkg maintainers about where they should go and who should maintain them
and how to do that transition.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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