Bug#903281: dh-make-elpa: want refresh subcommand

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> Package: dh-make-elpa
> Version: 0.13
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Emacsen team members spend far too much time doing the same updates to
> multiple packages.  dh-make-elpa should have a 'refresh' subcommand (to
> follow dh-make-perl) which does it for us.
>
> I have not looked at how dh-make-perl handles this, but I suspect that
> elpa packages are less uniform than perl libraries.  Thus, I'd suggest
> that this command just have a list of common updates that it would apply
> conservatively.
>
> For example, if a package has an "Enhances: emacs24", it would change it
> to "Enhances: emacs25".  And it can update the Vcs fields if
> --pkg-emacsen was passed.
>
> It shouldn't bump standards-version because there are too many non-elpa
> things about a package that might need to be updated.
>
> I'm not sure about debhelper compat level.
>

I'm not sure if this is a different request, or the same one, but it
might also be useful to have dh-make-elpa do the no-real-changes
sourceful upload. It could have a few safety checks and not screw things
up as much as I did ;).

d