Hi Sean,
Sean Whitton wrote:
> > when trying to switch the package tpp (which also ships "tpp-mode.el" to
> > edit tpp files), dh_elpa expects a file named
> > debian/.debhelper/elpa/tpp.desc despite debian/elpa lists
> > "contrib/tpp-mode.el".
> >
> > The content of the debian/elpa file seems to be ignored when calculating
> > the path to the .desc file.
>
> I have never heard of these .desc files
Me neither.
> and cannot find anything after a quick search engine query.
Maybe look into the dh_elpa source code? :-)
116 sub read_package_desc {
117 my ($descdir, $package) = @_;
118 my %desc = ();
119
120 my $descfile="${descdir}/${package}.desc";
121
122 my $fh;
123
124 open $fh,'<', $descfile or
125 error "failed to open $descfile";
126
127 while (<$fh>) {
128 if (m/([^:]+):\s*(.*)\s*$/) {
129 $desc{$1} = $2;
130 }
131 }
132 return \%desc;
133 }
[…]
180 foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
[…]
185 my $elpapkg=$package;
186 # TODO do this more sanely or at least allow an override
187 $elpapkg =~ s/^elpa-//;
188 verbose_print("Using elpa package name $elpapkg");
[…]
257 my $desc = read_package_desc ($tempdir,$elpapkg);
> Are you sure this is not a tpp-specific thing?
Yes.
For me, it looks (dh_)elpa-specific as dh_elpa seems to create that
file (it at least creates the directory in which it is) and the whole
tpp upstream tar ball contains no file ending on .desc.
Regards, Axel
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