Package: dh-elpa Version: 2.0.4 Severity: normal Hey team,
Thomas Koch added a nice workaround for truncated backtraces at: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianEmacsenTeam/Tips that workaround is d/elpa-test: ert_eval = (setq ert-batch-backtrace-right-margin 500) and I wonder if it should be activated by default, in the spirit of Policy ยง4.9 "The package build should be as verbose as reasonably possible". Speaking for myself, I would find it helpful, especially for the rare corner cases where only noninteractive --batch ert tests will trigger a failure. Also, I've been asked for untruncated backtraces by various upstreams. The only potential issue I can think of is that the reproducible and DebCI build logs will have then have long lines, but I feel like the benefit outweighs this consideration. A possible, though not ideal, solution to this potential issue might be to word-wrap the backtrace, but that functionality should probably be enabled in upstream Emacs. Let's consider setting `ert-batch-backtrace-right-margin` to a large value in the meantime. Regards, Nicholas
