Hi,

The package xfonts-scalable uses debhelper with a compat level of 5 or 6,
which is deprecated and scheduled for removal[1].

Please bump the debhelper compat at your earliest convenience
/outside the freeze/!

  * Compat 13 is recommended (supported in stable-backports)

  * Compat 7 is the bare minimum


PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT the release team *DOES NOT* accept uploads
with compat bumps during the freeze.

If there is any risk that the fix for this bug might not migrate to
testing before 2021-01-01[3] then please postpone the fix until after
the freeze.


At the time of filing this bug, compat 5 and 6 are expected to be
removed "some time during the development cycle of bookworm".


Thanks,
~Niels


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/07/msg00065.html

[2] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/FAQ.html

[3] The choice of 2021-01-01 as a "deadline" is set before the actual
freeze deadline to provide a safe cut off point for most people.

Mind you, it is still your responsibility to ensure that the upload
makes it into testing even if you upload before that date.

I've prepared merge requests for all the xfonts-* packages (except
xfonts-utils which contains utilities rather than fonts) fixing the
missing targets required by Policy §4.9:

https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/font/xfonts-100dpi/-/merge_requests/1
https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/font/xfonts-75dpi/-/merge_requests/1
https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/font/xfonts-base/-/merge_requests/1
https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/font/xfonts-cyrillic/-/merge_requests/1
https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/font/xfonts-encodings/-/merge_requests/1
https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/font/xfonts-scalable/-/merge_requests/1

Adding the new targets does not affect the contents of any built .deb.

I took the opportunity to fix the Vcs-Git, Vcs-Browser fields where
necessary, and add Rules-Requires-Root: no to avoid needing fakeroot
(I checked that this does not affect the contents of any of these .debs).

For -base, -cyrillic, -75dpi and -100dpi I also fixed FTBFS on newer
architectures such as arm64 by using dh_update_autotools_config to update
config.guess and config.sub (-base: #856271, -cyrillic: no bug reported,
-75dpi: #976471, -100dpi: #976571). Again, this does not affect the
contents of any built .deb. I didn't base this on Andrew Shadura's patch
from #856271, because that patch did the update manually and didn't handle
the clean step, whereas this version uses dh_update_autotools_config
which seems generally nicer (and in particular, dh_clean automatically
reverses it).

For -encodings and -scalable, the package's debhelper compat level 5
is no longer supported and the package FTBFS in unstable, so I had to
fix that first (#965901, #965894). Instead of doing a minimal bump to
deprecated version 7, I went directly to the recommended compat level
13 (available since stable and oldstable-backports). I verified with
diffoscope that the only effect this has on the contents of the .deb is
to add the upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz, which seems harmless.

These packages would probably all benefit from moving to short-form dh,
but I haven't done that here, because that's a matter of style/opinion
which should be left to the maintainer.

Thanks,
    smcv

Diffs for -scalable attached. As with -encodings, the missing build-arch
and build-indep targets are a second RC bug, but I'm not going to spend
time reporting a second RC bug and getting a second bug number just so
I can propose a patch to close it.

    smcv

I've prepared an NMU for xfonts-scalable (versioned as 1:1.0.3-1.3) with
the attached diff, also available at
<https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/font/xfonts-scalable/-/merge_requests/2>.

Since this only contains changes that were already merged into the
maintainers' VCS months ago, I'm going to upload a NMU without further
delay.

Thanks,
    smcv

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xfonts-scalable, 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 965894@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> (supplier of updated xfonts-scalable package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:18:32 +0000
Source: xfonts-scalable
Architecture: source
Version: 1:1.0.3-1.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Closes: 965894
Changes:
 xfonts-scalable (1:1.0.3-1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload, incorporating changes from the maintainers'
     packaging repository
 .
   [ Julien Cristau ]
   * Remove Cyril and David from Uploaders.
   * Add Vcs-* control fields.
   * Use https URL in debian/watch.
 .
   [ Simon McVittie ]
   * d/control: Update Vcs-* for migration to salsa.debian.org
   * Use recommended debhelper compat level 13 (Closes: #965894)
   * d/rules: Add missing build-arch, build-indep targets (Policy §4.9)
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