Hi Nicholas,
Le dimanche 29 janvier 2023 à 13:51, Nicholas D Steeves
<s...@debian.org> a écrit :
I agree, the wiki is a good place to centralise information.
Linking to
that article can then be used to avoid needing to reexplaining
things;
it also prevents gating when you link to it from package that
needs a
workaround--this is especially important for a package that
needs
an active human maintainer!
Another possibility might be to eventually provide additional
documentation in dh-elpa.
Feel free to use any part of my previous mails verbatim if you
edit the wiki (I don't have write access). If you want me to
review it first, just tell me.
Thanks! That will fulfil #1 of the above.
This is done.
The "not with a patch" alternative is valid but I worry it may
be
insufficient, so I would need to see what you're proposing...and
we're
short on time...for the record, here's my criteria:
1. Don't make Debian-specific fixes (make them upstream, and
make the
same changes in the Debian package), except for
Debian-specific issues
2. Provide the URL where fix was forwarded
3. It's better if no further action needs to be taken when
rebasing
the Debian package on a future (fixed) upstream version
4. Optionally provide a link to upstream bug (in this case, it
sounds
like that would be an Emacs bug). In the absence of this, it
would be
nice to see it as a TODO item, because we're supposed to be
helping
upstream work towards a more robust future.
5. Don't normalise the bug or take on technical debt--I feel
like
a simple use of d/elpa-test would probably do this, because
this file
is usually used for permanent Debian-specific CI integration
type
problems...also, if it's truly an Emacs then I think that
dh-elpa
is the place to implement the workaround.
Fair enough, I went with the patch.
Go ahead and finalise the changelog
with a commit message that mentions the version
(0.14.0+git20200603.5cbdbf0d-2) as well as the
distribution/suite
(unstable)--in other words, it's just about ready to sponsor.
Done, the package should be ready to upload.
Best,
Aymeric
