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Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages

From Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages
Date 2025-07-16 20:40 +0200
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Hello,

On Wed 16 Jul 2025 at 10:30am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Hello Xiyue,
>>
>> This is great work.  Thank you for the respin.  I'd just like to ask a
>> few questions about it.
>>
>> - What is the emacs-provided-package-versions variable for?  I don't
>>   think it gets set anywhere?
>>
>
> It's used later in the `emacs-provided-package-versions` function, which
> will populate it with a mapping of package name to version.  This will
> then be used later to actually generate the substvars values.

I don't think it needs to be a defvar.  It can be a lexical variable
inside that function.

> It also gets regenerated with `debian/rules debian-sync': notice that
> the build rule is marked `.PHONY'.  I think this should be run on each
> update according to d/README.source.  Maybe this could be added to
> dh_auto_clean in case someone (like me) forgets to run it by hand?

Why not generate it during the build?  That's how other substvars work.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-06-17 03:10 +0200
  Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-18 16:20 +0200
    Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-06-19 04:10 +0200
      Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-19 14:50 +0200
        Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-20 13:40 +0200
          Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-04 14:40 +0200
            Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-04 22:50 +0200
              Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-15 11:20 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-15 23:00 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-16 11:40 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-16 20:40 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-18 11:20 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-20 16:40 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-21 10:30 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-15 23:00 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-16 12:10 +0200

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