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linux-perf: Build a single unversioned package of perf

Ben Hutchings requested to merge benh/unversioned-perf into master

It is no longer necessary to match the kernel version, as perf is intended to gracefully degrade when kernel features are missing.

  • Drop all version suffixes, and the metapackage.
  • Move the non-metapackage control template to control.tools-unversioned.in.
  • Drop recommendation of linux-base.
  • Use dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir to replace the previous /usr/share/doc/linux-perf symlink. We can't use dh_maintscript for this as the symlink target to match must be generated dynamically.
  • Use dpkg-divert to move linux-base's wrappers and avoid a conflict.
  • Put the remaining changes from debian/tools-perf-version.patch in debian/tools-perf-perf-read-vdso-in-libexec.patch.

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