[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#905464: Bug#905464: dh-elpa: Expects .el file name to be based on package name (and does not consider "${pkg}-mode.el")

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> > I had to patch tpp-mode.el slightly as the headers and footers didn't
> > seem in the proper format either.
> 
> Mm, it might also be the case that tpp-mode.el and verbiste.el are
> missing something that is essential to an ELPA package's (packages.el)
> form.

Might be, yes. Then again, this is something which dh_elpa does based
on Debian package names, so I somehow doubt that there will be an elpa
header field stating into which Debian package the description file
will go. ;-)

> P.S. I'm not sure if it's a hard requirement or the standard
> convention, but usually debian/control will produce a bin:package
> named elpa-tpp-mode,

If that's a requirement, I'd consider that to be the bug.

There surely always will be packages where an emacs mode is just a
tiny give-away to some bigger package. At least from my point of view,
a separate binary package just for tpp's emacs-mode doesn't make
sense.

		Regards, Axel
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