Bug#1075614: Please cancel NMU of v-sim + help needed for autopkgtest of new upstream version

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 at 12:38:16 +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> I ve my own take on this: I would MBF the (expected few) remaining users of
> /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/gnome.mk
> and then get rid of this one cdbs module.

In general I'm in favour of conversion of packages from cdbs to dh, but if
my analysis was correct, it was the conversion to dh that triggered this
issue, not gnome.mk: the problem is that it wasn't immediately obvious
what functionality gnome.mk was providing, so it wasn't immediately
obvious when that functionality was lost during the conversion.

Many of the few remaining users of cdbs (outside the Haskell team) are
in undermaintained packages, and when a contributor converts a package
they are not necessarily fully familiar with to a different packaging
style, I think it's extra-important to double-check the result
(debdiff, lintian, looking for warnings in the build log, etc.) to make
sure nothing important was lost in that process.

    smcv