Matthias Klose <[email protected]> writes: > > dh-elpa doesn't work on package versions with buildN or ubuntuN suffixes, > errors > out with: > > Invalid version syntax: ‘0.49build1’ > > > patch at > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/562638722/dh-elpa_2.0.8_2.0.8ubuntu1.diff.gz > > however the patch doesn't work yet, packages still ftbfs like > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/562650646/buildlog_ubuntu-impish-amd64.lbdb_0.49build1_BUILDING.txt.gz > > any idea what's still missing?
OK, ftbfs is fixed, and I looked at it a bit more. I think lbdb might just be a special case. It's a native package and creates lbdb-pkg.el from debian/changelog via configure. dh_elpa assumes that if upstream provides a foo-pkg.el then it has legal metadata in it; in this case that isn't the case. I guess you could patch configure.ac. I don't know how much work would to defend against this kind of "wrong input" in dh_elpa. The actual failure is in package-load-descriptor, a standard emacs function, so some kind of preprocessing pass would be needed. I don't know how many packages are affected by issue, it seems to require native package. cheers, d
