> I'm a bit confused. I thought that the section information was stored in debian/control, but I see that while I have had (since 2014) "Section: introspection" in libaccounts-glib's debian/control [1], "apt-cache show" claims that the section is "libs".
No, you don't. debian/control says
Package: gir1.2-signon-1.0
Section: libs
So this does need to be fixed.
Meanwhile I can change the archive overrides correspondingly.
> I'm a bit confused. I thought that the section information was stored in debian/control, but I see that while I have had (since 2014) "Section: introspection" in libaccounts-glib's debian/control [1], "apt-cache show" claims that the section is "libs".
No, you don't. debian/control says
Package: gir1.2-signon-1.0
Section: libs
So this does need to be fixed.
Meanwhile I can change the archive overrides correspondingly.