minor patches generated while packaging for debian

I'm in the process of adopting padevchooser and putting it back into debian.
These patches were generated while updating the packaging scripts and silencing warning messages.

Also, I have a question: can we "tag" an official upstream release, presumably 0.9.4, so I can generate an upstream tarball snapshot?

(Also, of course, please feel free to comment on packaging issues, see branch "debian" in my repo for details.)