Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > In addition to running upstream test suites, dh_elpa_test could test > whether the package's elisp can be bytecompiled against the version of > Emacs in sid -- Emacs is already a hard dependency of dh-elpa. > > This would catch certain classes of bugs earlier.
1) What do you think about the idea of adding something like a "DESDTDIR" to the generated emacsen-common scripts, then running the generated emacsen-install file with DESTDIR=/tmp/something. That would be slightly risky in the sense that every time we touch maintainer scripts there is the potential for user suffering. 2) Should this be done by dh_elpa_test, or by dh_elpa? I can imagine that we might disable upstream test suites but still want to run the byte compilation. d
