Comment 5 for bug 1819207

Hi Jean-Baptiste,
I like the change and the automatism it will bring, but we have had some efforts to get Debian and us in Sync and this seems a non resolvable Delta for now.
The Debian Maintainer is smart and fast and therefore it was always great for us to have this package being a sync.

In this particular case dh_modalias [1] and co are a Ubuntu only thing for now - so we can't bring it there as-is. I wonder if you could also build a version using [2] for the d/rules changes.
Unfortunately I have no great suggestion for the d/control change as dh_moalias doesn#t exist in Debian at all. [3] as a similar discussion didn't lead to a "this is hwo you do it" and while [4] is working it confused enough people that I'd appreciate a smoother solution for anything implemented new (unless there is no other way).

I'd appreciate if you'd at least try to find a way to make this Debian compatible to drop the Delta in the long run (maybe you know there is a post-buster dh_modalias activity in Debian or anything like it - or you know of other such cases and how they were resolved?)

That said, I don't want to too be negative here. I reviewed the change/builds/ppa and I'm +1 on the suggested change for Ubuntu for the time being. You'll have to make this an FFE [5] bug to be allowed to upload it thou.
Will you do that Jean-Baptiste or do you need me to take over here?

[1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/dh_modaliases.1.html
[2]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebVendorVariable
[3]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/02/msg00710.html
[4]: https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/blob/debian-unstable/debian/rules#L290
[5]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess