Recent changes in dpkg

“The versions 1.15.6 and 1.15.7 of dpkg introduced several
important changes. Let’s skim over them:

* The dpkg-maintscript-helper tool has been introduced in dpkg
1.15.7.2 to help packagers deal with renaming conffiles and
removing obsolete conffiles. Check its manual page
dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) for more details on how to use it. This
shell script might be extended over time to cover other common
operations. Feel free to make suggestions while it’s not too late
to make changes on this new interface.

* dpkg-dev provides a new script called dpkg-mergechangelogs
that can be used to do 3-way merges of Debian changelogs. It is
already used on several git repositories to provide automatic merge
of debian/changelog.”

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