Comment 8 for bug 977964

@Seb: Yeah, I rejected the previous upload (and sent an email to Adam) because it had no bug reference.

I'm not thrilled about the superfluous packaging changes in this SRU - switching to DH9, dropping patches in favour of dh_autoreconf, dropping the .la file, and switching to 3.0 (quilt).

Are these changes taken from somewhere else, either Debian or the Quantal package? If so, could this be mentioned in the changelog?
Doesn't dropping the .la files present a risk that rdepends (either in the archive or of 3rd party software) will fail to build?

To what extent have the in-archive rdepends been tested with this? The list, for testing, would be:
  winefish
  sanduhr
  resapplet
  python-renderpm-dbg
  planner
  pegsolitaire
  oregano
  mathwar
  libgnomeuimm-2.6-1c2a
  libgnomeprintui2.2-0
  libgnomeprint2.2-0
  libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a
  libflowcanvas5
  grcm
  gpiv-mpi
  gpiv
  gnustep-back0.20-art
  gnomekiss
  gniall
  gcursor
  gamazons
  dia-libs
  conglomerate
  atomix
  ardour
  python-renderpm
  libgnomeui-0
  libgnomecanvas2-0
  libbonoboui2-0
  libart2.0-cil