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/

That sounds like a great idea; I've filed
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953736 to have
lintian flag packages that can be updated.

jelmer

That sounds like a great idea; I've filed
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953736 to have
lintian flag packages that can be updated.

jelmer

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-codemods, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 953391@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-codemods package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:31:51 +0100
Source: debian-codemods
Architecture: source
Version: 0.181
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>
Changed-By: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>
Closes: 953391 966631 970174 981529 1135874 1138770 1138773
Changes:
 debian-codemods (0.181) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Add fixer for binary-package-depends-on-toolchain-package.
   * Bump minimum makefile-lossless to 0.3.38, fixing support for
     define/enddef. Closes: #1138773
   * deb-scrub-obsolete: Drop redundant alternative dependencies after
     stripping version constraints. Closes: #981529
   * Only reorder Files paragraphs in debian/copyright when patterns actually
     overlap, rather than by directory depth alone. Closes: #1135874
   * Fix copyright-continued-lines-with-space to avoid mixed space+tab
     indentation. Closes: #966631
   * lintian-brush: Drop lintian overrides made unused when bumping the
     debhelper compat level rewrites debian/rules. Closes: #970174
   * Add fixer for uses-dh-addons (only applied with --opinionated).
     Closes: #953391
   * deb-scrub-obsolete: Report UDD connection failures as a fatal error
     rather than panicking. Closes: #1138770
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