From 75602de7c34fec0ad8c99c64a674ce79d1ae6d90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:16:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Forbid dpkg-divert --local in package maintainer scripts

State that package maintainer scripts must use --package and must
not use --local when invoking dpkg-divert.
---
 policy.sgml | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 9fe7158..587a6b2 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1214,9 +1214,11 @@
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
-	  You should not use <prgn>dpkg-divert</prgn> on a file
-	  belonging to another package without consulting the
-	  maintainer of that package first.
+	  You should not use <prgn>dpkg-divert</prgn> on a file belonging
+	  to another package without consulting the maintainer of that
+	  package first.  Package maintainer scripts must provide
+	  the <tt>--package</tt> flag to <prgn>dpkg-divert</prgn> and must
+	  not use <tt>--local</tt>.
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
-- 
2.39.5