[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#829096: Bug#829096: Bug#829096: dh-make-elpa: fails to determine that it was not ran from git repository

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 10:04:50AM +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote:
> > dh-make-elpa is just failing to generate some files
> > because it doesn't have enough information.  I've changed it to fail
> > silently -- thanks.
> 
> And another option would be not fail silently (and not fail with
> ordinary error message), but rather report a kind of warning or some
> message that some particular information cannot be extracted. In this
> case it will not scare users of dh-make-elpa and will inform them about
> problems.

I agree that that would be nice.  I've added it to my to-do list
(patches welcome of course).

-- 
Sean Whitton