Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: >> 4) Another thing that has been suggested at some point is >> auto-rebuilding team packages on a new dh-elpa upload. Because of the >> generated maintainer scripts, this rebuilding is likely to continue to >> be required, and it's not very nice for uploaders. > > Could you explain why this is needed, or point me somewhere to read > about why? I thought that since all Emacs Lisp packages are > architecture-independent there was never any rebuilding needed.
There have been a few bugs in the maintainer scripts (postinst, prerm) generated by dh_elpa, and currently the only way to fix those bugs is to rebuild the package using a fixed dh_elpa. We could also optimistically assume that the rate of bugs in dh_elpa will decrease.
