[Debian GNUstep maintainers] gnustep-base transition

[Yavor Doganov]

Eric Heintzmann wrote:
> Le 27/09/2017 à 09:31, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
> > In any case gnustep-base must pass through the NEW queue anyway.
> 
> and with a new soname gnustep-gui too

At the time I wrote the message I didn't know about the -gui issue
yet.

> So let's migrate to .dgbsym

OK, I'll make the changes in -base.  For -gui I suggest to wait and
see how we proceed first.

> Well I don't know the good practices, if there are any, for
> debian/changelog in git repo.

Well, I was asking what way do you prefer.  I don't insist that mine
is correct; I guess it's inherited from GNU practice where every
code change must include a corresponding ChangeLog entry.

Some other unrelated questions:

What's the reason to move some files under debian/templates?  I guess
it was to avoid cluttering debian/ but I find this approach slightly
confusing: it is not immediately evident that some files under debian/
are generated so a potential NMUer may not know that debian/control is
a generated file.  Perhaps we should put some comments or document it
in a separate file.

I don't actually understand how this new debian/copyright stuff with
these .yml files works.  I assume that the intention is to maintain
the copyright file (semi-)automatically, but running `cme update
dpkg-copyright' generates a lot of differences, some of them
meaningless.  Am I doing something wrong or I completely misunderstood
the whole thing?