Improve debian packaging#13811
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The Debian package maintains an up-to-date per-file DEP-5 copyright analysis, while our copy had drifted (missing newer files like st-password-entry, stale stanzas for files that no longer exist, outdated copyright years). Replace the file with the Debian version. Differences kept from our side: the Files: debian/* stanza stays as before (Linux Mint Project, GPL-2+ instead of the Debian packaging team), and the proxygsettings.py stanza removed in 23f1d9e stays removed, together with its now-unused GPL-3_SSLException license paragraph. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
…gl1-mesa-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev is nowadays just a transitional package; libgl-dev is
the real one shipping the GL development files (gl.pc, requested by
meson via dependency('gl')). Verified available on Mint 22 (libgl-dev
1.7.0). The Debian packaging made the same change in 2023.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
librsvg2-dev, libgudev-1.0-dev and gir1.2-json-1.0 are not referenced anywhere: no meson dependency() requests them and there are no matching includes or imports in the sources. They are leftovers from old GNOME Shell-derived code dropped long ago; the Debian packaging already removed them in 2015. Verified on Mint 22: build dependency installation and meson configure both succeed without them. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~) dates back to the hardening flags work; every supported base ships a far newer dpkg-dev, and the build-essential toolchain guarantees it anyway. The Debian packaging dropped it in 2021 for the same reason. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
projects.linuxmint.com no longer resolves at all, so the Homepage field pointed to a dead link. Point it to the GitHub repository, like the Debian packaging and our own debian/copyright Source field already do. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
devhelp will be removed from Debian and replaced by GNOME's manuals app. But this dependency is unnecessary anyway. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
Activate the gir and python3 debhelper sequences through the dh-sequence-* virtual build dependencies instead of --with in debian/rules. dh-sequence-python3 is provided by dh-python (which it replaces in Build-Depends) and dh-sequence-gir by gobject-introspection, which is already there. Same change as the Debian packaging did in 2021. Verified on Mint 22 that both addons still activate (dh_girepository and dh_python3 are in the dh sequence). Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 (the pre-libnm NetworkManager gir) and gnome-themes-standard (transitional package for gnome-themes-extra) are not available anymore on any supported base, so the alternatives are dead. The Debian packaging removed both in 2021. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
Nothing in the build fills this substitution variable (it comes from dh_gnome in gnome-pkg-tools, which we don't use), so it always expands to nothing and dpkg-gencontrol warns about it. The Debian packaging removed it back in 2012. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Fable 5)
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Both builds seems failed for not related issues: mint 22 lmde7 |
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merge some improments from Debian packaging