Package: lintian-brush
Version: 0.59
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Please consider adding a fixer that can convert old-style (WET)
'dh $@ --with foo' to new-style dh-sequence-foo for the addons
that support the new (DRY) style of hooking in addons to the
dh sequencer[1] (when using debhelper >= 12).
Please also make sure to drop the old build-dependency that is no longer
needed when using the dh-sequence-* virtual package as build-dependency.
(This might be difficult to do correctly as there might be other reasons
why keeping the build-dep around is the correct thing to do sometimes?)
For example in the Debian Gnome Team the gir and gnome addons are
commonly used and both of them support dh-sequence-{gir,gnome}
virtual package style nowadays provided by gobject-introspection
and gnome-pkg-tools binary packages respectively.
eg. a package that still needs this conversion is gnome-autoar.
(And while looking at this packages debian/rules it might be nice to
have simple cleanups that detects when some of the overrides can be
dropped once they've become the default in future debhelper compat
levels, like 'dh_missing --fail-missing' and 'dh_makeshlibs -- -c4'
will at some point in the future.)
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
[1]:
https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/debhelper-compat-12-is-now-released/
