[18252] in athena10
Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Tue May 2 11:33:38 2023
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
To: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>,
Luca Boccassi
<luca.boccassi@gmail.com>, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org,
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20230428080516.GA203171@subdivi.de>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 09:32:31 -0600
Message-ID: <tslwn1q3g1c.fsf@suchdamage.org>
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>>>>> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> writes:
Helmut> Luca Boccassi kindly pointed me at config-package-dev
Helmut> though. This is a tool for generating local packages and it
Helmut> also employs dpkg-divert. There is a significant risk of
Helmut> breaking this use case. If we were to divert dpkg-divert and
Helmut> automatically duplicate diversions, this use case were
Helmut> automatically covered.
Most of the uses of config-package-dev are typically within /etc.
Also, people who use config-package-dev tend to be managing
infrastructure and have ways to handle upgrades of their infrastructure.
