> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 05:37:31PM +0900, Masato Taruishi wrote: > > > > Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ah, the main point of this package is to create a local ad-hoc package > > > > which can coexist with its official package. Escpecially, I can manage > > > > my temporary on-going improvement to some debian package as a debian > > > > package. I didn't think to waste official debian packages because we > > > > shouldn't upload this kind of patch packages to the official but merge > > > > the patch to the official packages if we want to share them on public. > > > > > > The main question is "what on god's green earth does this do that > > > dpkg-divert doesn't do?" > > > > > > Looking at the package description, it implies that it will in fact do a > > > lot less than dpkg-divert unless you tell it otherwise. > > > > This creates a fragment to use dpkg-divert. It checks all md5sums of > > each package and lists files which we need to invoke 'dpkg-divert'. > > This seems like it would make more sense as a debhelper component than as an > independent program.
Yes, this package includes dh_gendebdivert to make the fragment. * debdivert program to make a diff build-tree * debhelper interface to use debidvert as a backend * cdbs inteface to use the debhelper interface as the backend I don't know well whether this package name is appropriate.
