Source: nheko Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
according to the `debian/README.sources` file (see Bug#926659), the sources of mtxclient are included with nheko's source in Debian. The source package doesn't declare to build a mtxclient package in debian/control. What I wanted to do was make an UNRELEASED package for nheko 0.6.3, with a more up-to-date mtxclient dependency (to resolve a bug causing nheko 0.6.3 to crash with Matrix v3 rooms). This dependency does not exist in the Debian tree by itself, but is static-linked with nheko Reborn. What I found was this convoluted and antiqued Standards-Version packaging, which requires running debian/rules make-orig-source and fetching sources from out of the tree. The CMake rules for this project would seem to otherwise download source tarballs from the Internet during the build process. I would also believe mtxclient would be more useful as a standalone package, and the nheko package in Debian should be patched to dynamically link to it, but that's maybe off-topic for this issue. Despite Debian Policy 4.3.0.3 ยง 4.13 on convenience copies saying it's a "should" and not a "must" to not use the convenience copies, but please consider if this makes the package unsuitable for release in buster (severity serious). -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information
