Comment 2 for bug 40122

Hey Gauvain, nice work on the patch. It generally looks ok to me, but could you please update it to the current version and pay attention to not drop stuff by accident? For example this piece of debian/rules hackery
    -find -type f -name 'Makefile.am' | sed -e 's/\.am$$//' | xargs rm -f

was simply dropped. Let's try to keep the diff as small as possible. If there are other improvements to make, let's not do them now.