Bug#1050685: elpa-debian-el: Error when using debian-bug on certain binary package: (wrong-type-argument processp nil)

[Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>]

Hiya,

Manphiz writes:

> Manphiz <manphiz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Another finding is that in 28.x, if the term buffer have any further
>> questions to ask, debian-bug seems to consider the process stuck and
>> would just ignore everything and proceed.  In 29.x however, the term
>> buffer seems to be able to accept user input and can process the output
>> accordingly - even if the script requires sudo and prompt for password,
>> and debian-bug can properly include the output in the generated email
>> for bug report.  So with the merge request[4] it would instead skip all
>> potential additional information unfortunately.
>>
>
> Actually 28.x also works for user inputs if running term-exec without my
> problematic hooks so yeah!
>
>> As we do want to handle process termination better, while trying to keep
>> process from failing, I think temporarily disable term-exec-hook when
>> processing the output and restore after the report is generated should
>> probably work in most cases.  Just wondering whether this is acceptable
>> in the process of debian-bug?
>>
>
> Forgot to mention that this is implemented as the 2nd commit in the
> MR[4] and tested on bookworm and trixie to be working.
>
>> [4] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/debian-el/-/merge_requests/11

Thank you for the patch. :-)  This seems like a reasonable fix to me,
and if David has no comments or objections I'd be happy to merge it
in the coming days.

Quick request: would you please amend your patch/MR to add a
debian/changelog entry for the change(s)?  It would be good to
do a new upload soon, and it'd be nice to have debian/changelog
in tiptop shape for that.

Thanks,
-a