Bug#906281: lintian: Severity and Certainty of emacsen-common-without-dh-elpa are wrong / false positives despite "Certainty: certain"

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> writes:


> Please note that I'm not 100% sure if these wildcards would match all
> relevant packages for now. Looking into the dh_elpa source code again
> might reveal some better metrics. Maybe also David Bremner (reincluded
> in Cc) might have some more insight with which packages dh-elpa works
> and with which it doesn't.

dh-elpa works if you create a separate binary package and name it
elpa-*. One could interpret the lintian message as suggesting that
strategy.  I'd imaging that wouldn't have a huge impact on the archive
in terms of number of binary packages created, but I don't have numbers
offhand.