debian: Reintroduce u-a, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride compat symlinks

There are still packages using those paths, but the relevant lintian
check did not list any, so these got removed prematurely.

Makefile.am

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	debian/dpkg.preinst \
 	debian/dpkg.prerm \
 	debian/dpkg.logrotate \
+	debian/dpkg.links \
 	debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides \
 	debian/dselect.cfg \
 	debian/dselect.docs \

TODO

@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ TODO
 
  * We should set our own obstack_alloc_failed_handler.
 
+ * Remove compatibility symlinks
+   /usr/sbin/{update-alternatives,dpkg-divert,dpkg-statoverride}.
 
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debian/changelog

@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ dpkg (1.17.22) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Add version introducing --ctrl-tarfile in dpkg-deb(1) man page.
   * Bump minimal version for dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands
     to 1.17.14 in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) man page. Closes: #769843
+  * Reintroduce update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride
+    compatibility symlinks under /usr/sbin/. There are still packages
+    using those paths, but the relevant lintian check did not list any,
+    so this got removed prematurely.
 
   [ Updated programs translations ]
   * German (Sven Joachim).

debian/dpkg.links

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+usr/bin/dpkg-divert usr/sbin/dpkg-divert
+usr/bin/dpkg-statoverride usr/sbin/dpkg-statoverride
+usr/bin/update-alternatives usr/sbin/update-alternatives