[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#847040: evil-el: test suite fails under emacs25

[Dmitry Bogatov]

[2016-12-06 09:38] Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name>
> I tested `hg tip` and reported a bug upstream:
> https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issues/731/test-suite-fails-with-emacs-25

Thank you. You saved me great pain.

> Once I update dh-elpa, all the elpa-* packages you list would be fixed.
> We have filed bugs against the others, and might NMU to bump
> s/emacs24/emacs25/.
>
> I have not yet updated dh-elpa because of evil-el's test suite, i.e.,
> this bug is blocking updating dh-elpa.  If the upstream fix proves to be
> very difficult and upstream is unable to provide a fix soon, we have two
> options:
>
> 1. Update dh-elpa anyway, causing evil-el to FTBFS, and bump this bug to
> RC-severity to keep evil-el out of stretch.  Not ideal, but evil-el has
> never been in testing anyway thanks to #829299.
>
> 2. Update dh-elpa and comment out the failing tests in evil-el.
>
> I don't think we should proceed with option (2) unless we are confident
> that elpa-evil works fine for everyday usage under emacs25, and #829299
> gets fixed.  (If #829299 is not fixed, option (2) achieves nothing.)
>
> I'd like to ask you to do two things:
>
> - Since you use evil, could you run elpa-evil under emacs25 for the next
>   two or three weeks for your regular usage, and report back?

I switched to emacs25 already (since this bug report). So far, no
changes.

> - Could you fix #829299 based on the private e-mails we exchanged a few
>   weeks ago, please?

I already pushed (but not released) fix for #829299 (d057d2).

Do you want me to release it right now? Or Should we wait wait for
resolution of current (#847040) bug -- either upstream releases new
version, either we are forced to disable tests.

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