Sync pstoedit 3.50-3 (main) from Debian testing (main)

This bug was fixed in the package pstoedit - 3.50-3

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pstoedit (3.50-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove documentation of "shareware" options (not available in the free
    software version) and regenerate manpage and HTML dcumentation with
    latex2man on build time (Closes: #554518)

pstoedit (3.50-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added watch file

pstoedit (3.50-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (Closes: #559540)
    - Includes -q option (Closes: #506308)
    - Fixes std garbage output (Closes: #223472)
    - Fixes unescaped gs call via shell (Closes: #582471)
  * New maintainer (Closes: #585060)
  * debian/control:
    - Standards-Version: 3.9.0
    - Build-Depends: autoconf, automake (now autoreconf at package build time)
  * Moved to new package source format 3.0 (quilt)
  * Added patch to redirect error messages to stderr (Closes: #551125)
 -- Marcel Stimberg <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:26:34 +0200

Debian didn't switch to the simplified dh 7 rules (two lines!), but that's not worth keeping a different package. Can you forward the dh 7 change to Debian?

I'm not sure whether the Debian packager would be too happy about the simplified rules file -- there seem to be some rather specific entries and while the package builds successfully with the 2-line-rules, during build I get a lot of warnings like

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libz.so.1 could be avoided if "debian/libpstoedit0c2a/usr/lib/pstoedit/libp2edrvlplot.so.0.0.0" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libXt.so.6 could be avoided if "debian/libpstoedit0c2a/usr/lib/pstoedit/libp2edrvlplot.so.0.0.0" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
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PS: Thanks for the fast sponsoring!

You could use the override_dh_* rules to carry over the specific entries.

To get rid of the dpkg-shlibdeps, you can use these linker flags:
LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed

But then it would no longer be a 2-lines file, right ;)
Thanks for your advice but I'm afraid I'm lacking the packaging skills to do this properly...

:)

You could at least request the switch to dh and override_dh_* (by filing a wish-list bug against the Debian package) and state that the 2-line rule works for you, but that it may ignore some of the fine-tuning.

Ok, you are of course right. I now filed the wishlist bug in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593991

Thanks. Great to see that it will be done post squeeze.