Bug#905940: convert package to dh-elpa

[Ralf Treinen]

Hi Nicholas,

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:

> Gentle ping, any progress on that MR review.

sorry for the long non-reply. In fact I will first (hopefully tomorrow)
upload an elpa-fied version of caml-mode, which is the new name upstream
has chosen for the old ocaml-mode. Upstream has now separated this from the
ocaml distribution, so that makes things much easier. Since this is a
Recommends of elpa-tuareg it goes first. It will have to go through NEW
so it make take a bit. Then, tuareg will be next.

Cheers -Ralf.

Bug#905940: convert package to dh-elpa

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Hi Ralf,

Gentle ping, any progress on that MR review.

Thanks,
Nicholas


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Bug#905940: convert package to dh-elpa

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Hi Ralf,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 07:52:18AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Hi Nicholas,
> 
> thanks for working on this package.

You're welcome :-)

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:45:40PM -0700, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> 
> > Done.  Here's the MR:
> > 
> >   https://salsa.debian.org/ocaml-team/tuareg-mode/merge_requests/1
> > 
> > Please note that autopkgtests for Tuareg require one of:
> > 
> > 1. ocaml-mode being elpafied too.
> > 2. a manual workaround to pull in ocaml-mode to the autopkgtestbed.
> 
> I will look to your proposed changes soon. Though I do not see
> why you mixed this up with unrelated cosmetic modifications. Renaming
> tuareg-mode, however, is out of question.

I included the whitespace cleanup as a courtesy, and for the sake of
completeness.  Is it unwanted?  Unless I made a mistake somewhere
there should be one operation per commit so it will be easy to drop
any unwanted commits.

As for bin:tuareg-mode vs bin:elpa-tuareg-mode, the former requires
extra work (kind of like a "Provides: virtual-package", but for
Package.el rather than dpkg).  Here is a brief case for
bin:elpa-tuareg

1. Compatibility with GNU ELPA/MELPA/Package.el without extra work. eg:
   https://melpa.org/#/tuareg, and not https://melpa.org/#/tuareg-mode

2. The mode is named "tuareg.el", "tuareg.el" has "(provide 'tuareg)"
   rather than "(provide 'tuareg-mode)".

3. Upstream README.md refers to the software as "Tuareg" rather than
   "tuareg-mode".  I edited the descriptions for consistency with MELPA
   and upstream documentation.

Do you prefer consistency with historical/existing Debian package
names rather than consistency with what Emacs uses for its own
dependency resolution and with MELPA?  That's fine with me, but please
share your rationale.  Also affects bin:ocaml-mode vs bin:elpa-caml

I'd be happy to do a v2 MR asap, after learning what the contentious
issues/commits are. :-)

Cheers,
Nicholas


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