Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)
