On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:28:34 -0400 (EDT) Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU> wrote:
Debathena developed a CDBS extension module called config-package-dev
that lets you do this in a mostly-sane manner for packaged files
(either regular files or conffiles, but not generated files). The
purpose of config-package-dev is to let us ship a package that via
dpkg-divert replaces a file in another package, so that we don't have
to rebuild the other package, take on responsibility for watching for
security updates, etc., and can just point users at the main Debian
repository for it.
That sounds really neat.
http://debathena.mit.edu/config-package-dev
[...] I'm
also working on a Debhelper based reweite in my spare time since DH 7
got us much of what we originally wanted from CDBS, but I'm not sure
how quickly this will be done.
I can't offer to help write you port it, but if I can help in testing
your DH7(and over?) version at some point let me know :)