"Barak A. Pearlmutter" <ba...@pearlmutter.net> writes:
> Also, if I add a transition package
>
> Package: vala-mode-el
> Architecture: all
> Depends: elpa-vala-mode
> Description: Transition Package, vala-mode-el to elpa-vala-mode
> Vala mode has been elpa-fied and this is the transition package,
> vala-mode-el to elpa-vala-mode.
>
> I get a horrible dh_elpa-time error. Is there some approved way of
> generating a transition package? Or in general, getting dh-elpa to
> ignore some generated package? (In an ideal world dh_elpa could just be
> told the old package name and it would generate a transition package
> itself, but that would be quite a trick.)
I don't know for your first question, but for the second one, you have
two solution:
you can run
dh_elpa -Nvala-mode-el
instead of
dh_elpa
to tell dh-elpa to ignore vala-mode-el, or you can use
dh_elpa debian/elpa-vala.elpa
to tell it to only handle elpa-vala
--
Rémi Vanicat
