Bug#1138884: dh-elpa: simplify emacs-bundled addon handling

Xiyue Deng [11/Jun  7:13pm -07] wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Xiyue Deng [10/Jun 11:23pm -07] wrote:
>>> So I guess this can really work!
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>>> Will continue with this after the integration test is merged so that
>>> we have some test coverage.
>>
>> IMO this is more important than that other work and can merge first.
>
> Ah I was hoping that the test branch is safer as it doesn't change any
> functions and can go in first.
>
> Anyway, I experimented a change[1] and tested it in the
> `built-in-addon-handling' branch, and rebased it on to the test branch
> for testing. One of the test cases has cl-lib in Package-Requires, and
> the generated diff looked OK[2].
>
> So now we only remove `emacs' from the list of dependencies. The code
> can be further simplified, but I'd like to keep the current structure in
> case we want to do more later.

I think I'd prefer to strip out everything we don't need anymore -- it's
always there in the Git history if required again.