upgrade-tests if no distro is given, rather use the last one of the tested
distros (ie. squeeze in the current setup on piatti.d.o)

    comments to install_and_upgrade_between_distros() to make the code
    easier to understand and hopefully improve in future. (Closes: #560050).
  - add logging to install_and_upgrade_between_distros() to point people to
    read the functions source code if they wonder why the log (for distro 
    upgrade tests) looks like it looks.
  - update several options descritpions.

someone is testing a package not yet in the archive. (Closes: #566672)
Thanks to Cleto Martin Angelina for the patch!

    in the upgraded distro) is not available in the distro being upgraded 
    from.

and also to configure apt to use that option. Thanks, Andres. 
(Closes: #605475)

* Drop build-depends on dpkg-dev as it's in build-essential.
* debian/preinst: update code snipplet rm_conffile() from
  http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
* this commit was powered by lintian! thanks once again! :)

  - better documentation of custom scripts.

<b>2010-11-28</b>: debconf-english is the seventh package getting special treatment by piuparts: before removal, debconf-i18n is installed (see <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/539146" target="_blank">#539146</a> has the details and the news entry for 2010-11-25 lists the other six packages.)

+++ trunk/debian/changelog  
+    - new custom script: pre_remove_ (Closes: #539146)

(Closes: #603453)