Package: dh-elpa
Version: 2.1.5
Severity: normal
dh-elpa detects the `Package-Version' cookie from Elisp source files and
generates Debian version numbers to be used in the substitute variable
${elpa:Depends}. However there is a small issue that it does not work
well with snapshot version numbers.
For example, say the Elisp source file contains the following line:
,----
| Package-Version: ((foo "1.0.0"))
`----
The generated corresponding Debian version would be
,----
| foo (>= 1.0.0)
`----
This usually works. However, when the upstream does not have a tag
matching the source version, this would become an issue. Take the
aforementioned foo as an example: if upstream does not have a tagged
version or the tagged version is lagging behind (e.g. 0.9), we should
usually use a package version combining the source version with a git
snapshot hash, e.g. 1.0.0~git20241101.dedbeef. Unfortunately, this
version would not satisfy the Debian version requirement because in
Debian "1.0.0~" is less than "1.0.0".
dh-elpa should instead generate snapshot-friendly version number like
,----
| foo (>= 1.0.0~)
`----
Unfortunately, this would require another batch rebuild for all
packages, or this may cause reproducible test issues.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dh-elpa depends on:
ii debhelper 13.11.4
ii emacs 1:29.4+1-2~bpo12+1
ii emacs-gtk [emacs] 1:29.4+1-2~bpo12+1
ii libarray-utils-perl 0.5-3
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.28-2
ii libdebian-source-perl 0.122
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.22
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-3
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-3
ii perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u1
dh-elpa recommends no packages.
dh-elpa suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Regards,
Xiyue Deng
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