Bug#917364: libgudev: Add debian/docs to provide the NEWS and README files

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Patrice Duroux,

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 05:54:52PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote:
> Source: libgudev
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> W.r.t. most of the GNOME related packages, here is a patch.

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