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Bug#981084: dh-elpa should provide dh-sequence-elpa



Hi David,

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:06:59AM -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> I haven't really undestood the implications of this yet. Are you
> proposing this change for bullseye, or can it wait until after the
> freeze?

This is not obvious. Let me give more details, so you can get a better
picture.

debhelper knows about addons. Traditionally, you could enable them via
"--with foo". That turned out to be difficult when you want an addon for
for an architecture-independent package (e.g. sphinx) and can skip it
for arch-only builds. Therefore a separate way to enable addons was
added. When you add dh-sequence-foo to Build-Depends, it'll be enabled.

Given that presently nothing provides dh-sequence-elpa, nothing can
practically use it. Adding the provides changes nothing right now. That
is until someone else starts depending on it. Therefore, I think the
risk of regressing anything is quite low.

This change is a bit of an edge case wrt freeze. Having it in bullseye
would be good for one reason: Once someone backports packages that do
depend on dh-sequence-elpa, one also has to use a backported dh-elpa
unless you add the provides now. So in the interest of simplifying
backports to bullseye, I'd say you should include it now.

Does that make sense to you?

I'm Ccing Niels, so he can correct the things that are wrong if any.

Helmut


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