[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#1074456: viewpdf.app: dh_gnustep removal

Yavor Doganov yavor at gnu.org
Fri Jun 28 21:23:57 BST 2024


Source: viewpdf.app
Version: 1:0.2dfsg1-7
Tags: sid trixie ftbfs
User: pkg-gnustep-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: dh_gnustep-removal

This package uses dh_gnustep directly but dh_gnustep will be removed
in the near future.  It is not part of debhelper so the program
(script) name is misleading.

There is a /usr/bin/gsdh_gnustep symlink which currently points to
/usr/bin/dh_gnustep; the plan is to leave only gsdh_gnustep which will
be the real script.  So please make sure to invoke gsdh_gnustep
directly in your debian/rules.

You can remove the build-dependency on gnustep-make straight away
(lintian issues a warning if a dh_* command is in another package and
the source package using it is not build-depending on it); the
gsdh_gnustep symlink exists since the first time when (gs)dh_gnustep
was implemented (gnustep-make/1.11.1-1) and is guaranteed to be
available across all relevant Debian suites.

The severity of this bug will be promoted to "serious" as soon as the
appropriate gnustep-make upload (removing dh_gnustep) is made to
unstable as it will cause this package to FTBFS.

P.S.  Most probably I'll handle this myself when the time comes.



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