Hi, Thank you for you work on this, and I'm happy to see the progress on this proof-of-concept implementation :)
https://salsa.debian.org/ricorambo/dh-elpa-extras/-/blame/master/extracted-data/1:29.1+1-5#L468 shows "nil". Is this because the metadata is missing in Emacs 29.1 (upstream bug, as I noted existed in my understanding of the problem, noted on #debian-emacs), or is it a bug in dh-elpa-extras? This is significant because emacs-common needs to Provide transient, because it's an elpa package. Ie: https://melpa.org/#/transient https://packages.debian.org/sid/elpa-transient Upstream Emacs master branch had version 3.2 back in 2021: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/lisp/transient.el?id=afcdd4cab3d8c3450852405a3dd64a5316d38b85 I chose to spend my review time looking for this specific issue and stopped when I found one incidence. From what I can tell, this would be the checklist Rob (sorry for being presumptuous) would be looking for: 1. [ ] Catches misses like the one noted above 2. [ ] Can be run during the packaging of a $upstream_version-1 Debian revision of src:emacs to solve the bootstrap problem. 3. [ ] Please review your dependencies, because your work depends on at least one nifty tool from at least one Optional package. Other than that, yes, as I previously noted on #debian-emacs, this looks like right direction to do things. Cheers, Nicholas
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