Bug#1040787: dh-elpa: Lots of missing eln files

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Mon 10 Jul 2023 at 03:27pm +01, Nikolaus Rath wrote:

> Package: dh-elpa
> Severity: normal
>
> After upgrading to bookworm, I'm getting many warnings when starting
> emacs:
>
> Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/dash-2.17.0/dash.elc Disable showing Disable logging
> Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/transient-0.2.0.30/transient.elc Disable showing Disable logging
> Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/async-1.9.3/async-bytecomp.elc Disable showing Disable logging
> Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/async-1.9.3/async.elc Disable showing Disable logging
> Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/with-editor-3.0.2/with-editor.elc Disable showing Disable logging
>
> Looking at one randomly there seems to be a broken symlink for the .el
> file:
>
> nikratio@vostro /u/s/e/s/elpa> dir  /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/async-1.9.3/async.*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root  57 Feb 24 10:49 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/async-1.9.3/async.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/async-1.9.3//async.el
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 12K Feb 24 10:49 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/async-1.9.3/async.elc
>
>
> I am not sure which package ought to ship
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/.
>
> I suspect this is the same problem for all elpa-* packages, so I'm not
> filing this against elpa-async but (my best guess) dh-elpa.

async 1.9.3 is from buster.  You have
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-async-1.9.7 on your system, right?

-- 
Sean Whitton