[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] [PATCH 0/3] update libvmime to debhelper 10

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:28:14PM +0100, c.schoenert at t-online.de wrote:
> From: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert at t-online.de>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've was looking at the small list of Lintian issues for libvmime. Mostly
> because debhelper 10 is out and version 8 is now marked as deprecated.
> 
> https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-giraffe-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#libvmime
> 
> The found typo in debian/rules is already fixed.
> 
> Moving from DH8 to DH10 means in the first place switching the library to
> multiarch support. For this are small changes needed to mainly to
> debian/rules.

Looks like a good move (although I would have delayed this past
stretch due to lack of time to unbreak things if it fails). Anyways:

If you want multiarch you also need the Multi-Arch: fields in
debian/control. See

    https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation#dh.281.29_and_autotools

Cheers,
 -- Guido