Re: elpa startup

[Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>]

"Barak A. Pearlmutter" <barak@pearlmutter.net> writes:
> Also, if I add a transition package
>
>   Package: vala-mode-el
>   Architecture: all
>   Depends: elpa-vala-mode
>   Description: Transition Package, vala-mode-el to elpa-vala-mode
>    Vala mode has been elpa-fied and this is the transition package,
>    vala-mode-el to elpa-vala-mode.
>
> I get a horrible dh_elpa-time error.  Is there some approved way of
> generating a transition package?  Or in general, getting dh-elpa to
> ignore some generated package?  (In an ideal world dh_elpa could just be
> told the old package name and it would generate a transition package
> itself, but that would be quite a trick.)

I don't know for your first question, but for the second one, you have
two solution:

you can run
	dh_elpa -Nvala-mode-el
instead of
	dh_elpa

to tell dh-elpa to ignore vala-mode-el, or you can use

	dh_elpa debian/elpa-vala.elpa

to tell it to only handle elpa-vala





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Rémi Vanicat