Dear Maintainer,

W.r.t. most of the GNOME related packages, here is a patch.
Thanks,
Patrice

Hello Patrice Duroux,

Rather than poking at this per package (and then having to revert
it all again in each package), I think you should be aware of
the work that has recently been done on debian policy and was
merged for debian policy 4.2.0:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html#version-4-2-0

For full discussion see http://bugs.debian.org/459427

Next up would be to adapt these changes in debhelper, so that it
would just "do the right thing" (without having to override the
behaviour in each package).

See https://bugs.debian.org/906827

I thus think your recently submitted patches (for this bug report and
the others that where also filed recently) are misdirected and would
better *not* be applied (since it's busywork having to pull them in
just to turn around and remove them all again).

Please also note that you'll probably have better luck submitting
patches as merge requests on https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/ .

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

Hi,

Ok, sorry for the noise. It seemed to me to be careful in setting the severity
to 'wishes' exactly for any reason (hidden to me) regarding progress in
packaging rules and tools. And so sure I agree that it is even better to improve
packaging tools than to mislead the packagers with those patches. My both feet
were too much in the user camp! :-)
Do you want me to close all those 'wishes'?

Would not proceeding with merge requests be more noisy for you in this case?

Having a look to those feeds that is not very clear to me what is going on (or
have to) in Debian for this. So finally are you forwarding me to consider the
following link?
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst

Sorry again and thanks,
Patrice
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html#version-4-2-0