Re: anthy: need help convert to using dh-elpa

[Luke Yasuda]

On 2026-08-28 00:21, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:

Hi Luke,

Luke Yasuda <jing@jing.rocks> writes:

Hi all,

The Japanese input method package "anthy" is not using dh-elpa and I
have been trying to convert it [1] to using dh-elpa, but no success so
far. Please help.


but somehow, *.el files are not installed in the binary package

generate one. I don't know what is wrong here.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/anthy/-/commits/dh-elpa

I followed the wiki and made some changes here [1]. The package builds, "elpa-anthy". I also had to write anthy-pkg.el because dh-elpa fails to

dh_elpa does more than just an Emacs-flavoured dh_install, and I'm not
sure that it will work properly in your
execute_after_dh_auto_build-indep.  Have you tried "dh $@ --with elpa"?

package where dh uses cmake as well as dh_elpa:

It doesn't hijack debhelper and prevent configure, build, and install of non-elpa parts of the source package. See irony-mode for an example of a https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/irony-mode/-/tree/master/debian?ref_type=heads

Thanks & cheers,

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Ah, "dh $@ --with elpa" works now (but why not before?), but it has an ugly side effect of dh-elpa pulling a lot of dependencies when building even with --no-arch-all, and dh-elpa doesn't support dh-sequence-elpa in Build-Deps-Indep. But I somehow made it work with execute_after_dh_auto_install-indep.

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