Bug#1144053: elpa-org-roam: org-roam requires emacsql sqlite backend

Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:03:08 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen
Message-ID	<871pc5lgsz.fsf__13914.0768720367$1786403126$gmane$org@debian-hx90.lan>

Control: severity -1 important
Justification: breaks functionality

Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> writes:

> Control: tag -1 trixie
>
> Hi,
>
> David Miguel Susano Pinto <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> However, that is not currently listed as package requirement.  There
>> is a requirement on elpa-emacsql which provides only the high level
>> abstractions but not on the sqlite backend.  Without elpa-emacsql-sqlite
>> installed, starting org-roam in emacs leads to the following error:
>>
>>     File is missing: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, emacsql-sqlite
>
> [snip]
>
>> I suggest that elpa-emacsql-sqlite be added as a requirement for
>> elpa-org-roam
>
> Agreed
>
>> (however, I think that things have changed for the
>> latest version of org-roam so this may apply only to the version
>> currently on Debian stable).
>
> Elpa-emacsql-sqlite is an empty dummy package in sid/unstable and this
> bug this only affects trixie.  I think this bug meets the criteria for a
> stable update because the regression risk is zero.
>
> Give me a few minutes to make the upload and file the unblock bug, but
> please ping me if you don't see an unblock bug in a week.
>

Note that currently trixie and sid/forky share the same version of
elpa-org-roam (2.3.1-1). You cannot upload a higher version in stable
(yet) because there is no version available in between and hence there
is no upgrade path (and your upload to stable-proposed-updates will
likely be rejected with the same reason).

I think you'll need to first upload a no-op 2.3.1-2 and wait for it to
enter Forky, and then prepare 2.3.1-1+deb13u1 for stable so that an
upgrade path is available.

P.S. For stable updates the bug it fixes also needs to be important or
above. I have bumped the severity to important here as well.

> Cheers,
> Nicholas
>

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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