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Package: dh-elpa
Version: 2.1.9
Severity: important
Currently dh-elpa has special handling of addons that are built-in to
emacs so that instead of adding the addon to the Depends field, it adds
emacs-common instead to fulfill the requirement. This has been causing
issues that if an addon requires a version of the addon that is higher
than the one bundled in emacs, dh-elpa will not know. As an example:
recently a few packages start to require compat 31.0, while the current
Emacs 30.2 bundles compat of version 30.2.9999. As dh-elpa does not
handle the version, it still only provides emacs-common as part of
"${elpa:Depends}". The current work around is to manually add
"elpa-compat (>= 31.0)" to Depends of the addon package[1][2], which
would be error-prone if there is no test to catch this.
On the other hand, emacs-common generates breaks/replaces/provides for
all bundled addons with their elpa-* names since 1:30.1+1-7. Using
compat as an example, emacs-common will have the following:
,----
| Break: elpa-compat (<< 30.2.9999)
| Replaces: elpa-compat (<< 30.2.9999)
| Provides: elpa-compat (= 30.2.9999)
`----
With this info, dh-elpa does not really have to do any special handling
anymore, and just issuing the standard versioned elpa-compat as part of
`${elpa:Depends}', and apt should do the right thing. Consider the
following 2 cases:
* emacs-git-modes depends on "elpa-compat (>= 29.1.4.1)"; emacs-common
30.2 provides a higher version of compat, so emacs-common can fulfill
this dependency (you can also install elpa-compat 31.0.0.1 of course,
which will also take precedence.)
* transient depends on "elpa-compat (>= 31.0)"; emacs-common 30.2 cannot
fulfill this requirement, so elpa-compat 31.0.0.1 will be installed.
So it looks like after emacs 1:30.1+1-7, dh-elpa does not need to have
special handling of bundled addons anymore.
If this sounds good, I'll prepare an implementation.
(It would be good if dh-elpa has a unit/integration test for easier
verification, which I also planned to work on but didn't find time yet.)
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/transient/-/blob/master/debian/control?ref_type=heads#L26
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/with-editor/-/blob/master/debian/control?ref_type=heads#L22
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 7.0.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dh-elpa depends on:
ii debhelper 13.31
ii emacs 1:30.2+1-3
ii emacs-gtk [emacs] 1:30.2+1-3
ii libarray-utils-perl 0.5-3
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1
ii libdebian-source-perl 0.133
ii libdpkg-perl 1.23.7
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.35-1
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-3
ii perl 5.40.1-7+b1
dh-elpa recommends no packages.
dh-elpa suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Regards,
Xiyue Deng
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Source: dh-elpa
Source-Version: 2.2.0
Done: Sean Whitton <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dh-elpa, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sean Whitton <[email protected]> (supplier of updated dh-elpa package)
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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:29:44 +0100
Source: dh-elpa
Architecture: source
Version: 2.2.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Emacsen team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Sean Whitton <[email protected]>
Closes: 1104316 1138884
Changes:
dh-elpa (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Xiyue Deng ]
* Fix git version detection regexp (Closes: #1104316)
- Thanks John Zaitseff <[email protected]> for reporting and
proposing a fix!
.
[ Sean Whitton ]
* Stop filtering package.el deps (Closes: #1138884).
emacs-common now Provides all built-in packages, instead.
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