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Reword displace extension docs a bit
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@@ -72,9 +72,10 @@ of files, and this suffix plus the string "-orig" is appended to the
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original versions of the files. The default value is the first word of
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the package name. For example, the extension for debathena-bin-example
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would be ".debathena". So if debathena-bin-example displaced /bin/true,
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the original /bin/true would be found at /bin/true.debathena-orig and
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the new version (installed by e.g. dh_install) found at
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/bin/true.debathena. /bin/true itself would become a symbolic link.
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dh_configpackage would create a diversion from /bin/true to
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/bin/true.debathena.orig, and create a symbolic link from /bin/true to
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/bin/true.debathena. The package should then install its modified
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version at /bin/true.debathena, using e.g. B<dh_install>.
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(For the remainder of this documentation, ".debathena" will be used as
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the displace extension.)
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