Source: lintian Version: 2.10.0 debhelper 12 supports a new special dh-sequence- build-depends feature [1]. For instance, a Build-Depends on dh-sequence-gnome (a virtual package provided by gnome-pkg-tools) will automatically pass the '--with gnome' option to dh without needing that to be specified in debian/rules.
The lintian tags need to be updated for this. For instance, here's the lintian errors I got with totem 3.32.0-1 targeted at experimental. The final error "missing-build-dependency gnome-pkg-tools" triggered an auto-reject. E: totem source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command dh_python3 => dh-python E: totem source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command dh_girepository => gobject-introspection E: totem source: missing-build-dependency gnome-pkg-tools So if you find the dh_python3 helper is being used, a Build-Depends on dh-sequence-python3 should satisfy the requirement. If you can, I'm requesting that this issue be fixed for Buster since a growing number of packages will be using dh-sequence. [1] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dh#OPTIONS Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
