Bug#1122758: g15daemon: Please remove/replace usage of dh_movetousr

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 + patch

On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:52:17 +0100 bi...@debian.org wrote:

Source: g15daemon
Version: 1.9.5.3-14.1
Severity: normal
User: helm...@debian.org
Usertags: dh_movetousr_removal

Hi,

your package g15daemon either Build-Depends on dh-sequence-movetousr
or uses dh_movetousr conditionally to move files from aliased
locations like /sbin, /bin or /lib to the canonical location in /usr.

Eventually, we would like to get rid of this debhelper addon.
Packages should use the canonical paths without any postprocessing.

This means, files are installed directly into /usr.

Please note, that such a change must not be backported to bookworm or
older. If you intend to provide such backports, these changes must be
reverted for those releases. If this means an undue burden on your
workflow our recommendation is to postpone this cleanup.

The motivation for this bug report is, to inform maintainers, that
installing files into the canonical location explicitly, is now the
preferred approach and dh_movetousr is now a deprecated tool.

The goal is, to have dh_movetousr removed after forky is released. We
can revise this plan, if needed. Please keep this timeline in mind
and let us know if this doesn't work for you.

For more information see [1].

If you have further questions, there is an IRC channel named
#debian-usrmerge on OFTC.

Regards,

Michael

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/11/msg00245.html

Please find attached a build-tested patch.

Regards,
Michael

diff -Nru g15daemon-1.9.5.3/debian/changelog g15daemon-1.9.5.3/debian/changelog
--- g15daemon-1.9.5.3/debian/changelog  2024-02-28 10:33:10.000000000 +0100
+++ g15daemon-1.9.5.3/debian/changelog  2026-07-05 16:39:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+g15daemon (1.9.5.3-14.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Drop dh-sequence-movetousr Build-Depends, not actually needed.
+    (Closes: #1122758)
+
+ -- Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org>  Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:39:51 +0200
+
 g15daemon (1.9.5.3-14.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Non-maintainer upload.
diff -Nru g15daemon-1.9.5.3/debian/control g15daemon-1.9.5.3/debian/control
--- g15daemon-1.9.5.3/debian/control    2024-02-28 10:33:10.000000000 +0100
+++ g15daemon-1.9.5.3/debian/control    2026-07-05 16:38:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
  Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.22.5),
  debhelper-compat (= 12),
- dh-sequence-movetousr,
  libfreetype-dev,
  libg15-dev (>= 1.2.7-3),
  libg15render-dev (>= 1.2.0.svn250-2),

Looks like the dh-sequence-movetousr Build-Depends was not actually needed and can be dropped safely (the installation of the udev rules file is done via dh_installudev which already does the correct thing).

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