[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Misc issues with gnustep-base

[Yavor Doganov]

Eric Heintzmann wrote:
> Le 29/09/2017 à 00:36, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
> > I suggest to move them to gnustep-base-doc.

> Where will you install these examples ?
> (|Policy suggests /usr/share/doc/package/examples )

As I said, /usr/share/doc/gnustep-base-doc/examples in the
gnustep-base-doc package.

> > 2. debian/control -- It is not possible to regenerate it with a simple
> > command now as it is part of the override_dh_auto_configure recipe.
> Yes it is an issue of -base and -gui and -back.
> Since the debian new maintainer guide says "Please limit explicit
> targets to override_dh_* targets and completely independent ones, if
> possible. ", I failed to find an elegant solution.
> But if you have one, it is welcome

Well, it says "if possible" -- IOW, it's not forbidden.  I agree that
having separate rules for all other generated files is redundant.  But
debian/control is special, it always was.

> > 3. Where is the Git history?

> Yes it was, using
> 
>   *gbp import-dscs* --debsnap gnustep-base
> 
> The goals was to support the use of pristine-tar, and to quickly import
> a long history of NMUs

Why it was necessary to replace the old repository?  I used to import
NMUs, there was no problem.  It's a pity that we've lost so many
individual commits and the history now contains only giant commits
between different package versions.