Comment 25 for bug 2047780

Hello Daniel!

>Thank you for working over the weekend on this. I would have resolved it myself on the Monday if someone >answered the question in comment #11.

This is what a team does, help other people.
In this case I started answering to comment #11, I did fix->fix->fix DH_VERBOSE, fix something more, read manpage to check if compat level was the culprit, and found nothing on manual... So I just started looking at incorporating some dh fixes from debian packaging, and after 6 uploads on my ppa, the variables started being correctly parsed.

I still don't have an answer for that question, this is why I came up with a frustrated answer :)

Thanks for your work, and I hope with our suggestions in the future the maintenance of the package will become easier, with help of MoM.

For example your Debian bug #1060242 is already acked and confirmed, so I would say there is an extremely good cooperation with Debian, and I'm pretty sure with some Debian bugs, the maintenance for Ubuntu will become less and less painful. For example all this kind of issues would have been not a problem if the package would have been merged from Debian years ago.
This is why the best way to move forward is to me to just do a merge, and then use MoM in the future to grab new fixes and new releases. If we need a new upstream version, we can still help Debian package it, and then merge. This will make the current packaging a lot easier for the benefit of the community and sponsors (including fixing some bugs in Debian too)