[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#829200: dh-elpa: Could dh-elpa be told to use debian version as elpa version

[Remi Vanicat]

Package: dh-elpa
Version: 0.0.21
Severity: wishlist

Some elpa package do not have the ";; Version:" (for example magit, and
other package made by the magit developers), but in most situation, the
elpa package version is the upstream part of the debian source
version.

Adding an way to let dh-elpa know this, would be cool. Or maybe just an
option to tell it what elpa version there is (setting
"DH_ELPA_VERSION=$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM)" would do in most case, but
letting more complex stuff possible).

The hack used in magit to let dh-elpa know the version is there, if this
is useful.

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-emacsen/pkg/magit.git/tree/debian/rules?id=3e3f6490b788b95e2b990f71ee097771c2b311a9

Maybe no the simple way to do it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dh-elpa depends on:
ii  dh-make-perl            0.90-1
ii  emacs24                 24.5+1-6+b2
ii  libarray-utils-perl     0.5-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl  0.34-1
ii  perl                    5.22.2-1

dh-elpa recommends no packages.

dh-elpa suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Rémi Vanicat

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