[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#847690: dh-elpa: better handling of `deftheme' themes

[Sean Whitton]

Package: dh-elpa
Version: 1.3
Severity: normal

Function autoloads are handled elegantly by dh-elpa.  After installing a
package, you can just put (turn-on-some-global-minor-mode) in your
~/.emacs, and everything works fine.

Themes defined with `deftheme' don't work so well.  After installing a
theme, a simple call to `load-theme' in your ~/.emacs will fail.

Two possible workarounds are:

    (package-initialize)
    (load-theme 'zenburn t)

or

    (add-hook 'after-init-hook (lambda () (load-theme 'zenburn)))

but this really shouldn't be necessary.  In short, ELPA packages
supplying themes are currently second-class citizens in the elpa-*
namespace.

I'm filing this bug against dh-elpa for the time being, but there might
not be any sane patch to dh-elpa that will resolve the issue.  The only
solution might be to implement autoloads for defthemes upstream.

If you are hitting this bug with your package, a sample README.Debian
giving a workaround for users is available in src:zenburn-emacs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dh-elpa depends on:
ii  debhelper               10.2.2
ii  dh-make-perl            0.92
ii  emacs24                 24.5+1-7
ii  libarray-utils-perl     0.5-1
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl     2.23-1
ii  libdebian-source-perl   0.92
ii  libdpkg-perl            1.18.10
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl  0.34-1
ii  libtext-glob-perl       0.10-1
ii  perl                    5.24.1~rc4-1

dh-elpa recommends no packages.

dh-elpa suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Sean Whitton
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