Bug#691552: unblock: yate/4.1.0-1~dfsg-3

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:36:14 +0100,
Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov  7, 2012 at 09:28:28 +1100, Mark Purcell wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:32:36 Paul Chitescu wrote:
> > > > unblock yate/4.1.0-1~dfsg-3
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > Does this require any more action?
> > 
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > Yes we are awaiting a decision from debian-release.
> > 
> debian-release don't like the debian/rules changes much.

I think we can all agree on that. Such changes shouldn't happen during
the freeze, but the problem is that the debian/rules file is buggy:

http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-voip/yate/tags/4.1.0-1~dfsg-2/debian/rules?revision=9806&view=markup

On line 21-22 and 96-97 you see the use of dh, but in lines 24-94 old
style debhelper is used. This is just wrong and causes bugs. The
proper fix would be to use only one style and this is what Mark did in
the last version.

It might be possible to spend a lot of time to see whether the known
bugs can be fixed with minimal changes and just hope there aren't more
bugs caused by the mix of debhelper styles, but I think that's a waste
of time and keeping the mix of debhelper isn't going to make reviewing
what's going on easier.

Yate is also just a leaf package. If Yate gets new RC bugs because of
these changes and those aren't quickly fixed it can simply be removed
from testing.

Kind regards,

Jeroen Dekkers