Hello,

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 09:31:58PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Package: tuareg-mode
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Debian OCaml Maintainers,
> 
> Thank you for maintaining tuareg-mode!  Unfortunately it's
> autopkgtests have been failing since emacsen-common 3.0.2 and
> unversioned emacs were uploaded, and tuareg-mode is delaying their
> migration to testing.

This is done for now.

> Would you please adapt tuareg-mode to the new
> infrastructure?
> 
> In the case of irony-mode, the quick fix for autopkgtest on LXC was to
> add "ert_eval = (require 'cl)" to debian/elpa-test; this was not
> required for tests to pass on a real system or in any type of chroot.
> The use of d/elpa-test requires converting the package to use dh-elpa
> rather than legacy debian/emacsen.scripts.  In addition to the general
> case of making src:packages maintenance less burdensome, using dh-elpa
> appears to have insulated many packages from the breaking changes
> recently introduced by emacs upgrades.
> 
> This action will also close #850071, #582981, because dh-elpa does not
> support XEmacs.
> 
> Please let me know if I can be of any assistance :-)

If moving to dh-elpa allows us to get rid of the debian/emacsen.*
scripts then I am all for it. However, I don't know anything about elpa
and probably won't have the time to look into it for the next future,
so patches are welcome!

-Ralf.

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