add substvar for emacsen-common dependency

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4aee4a1..d73ec2b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+dh-elpa (0.0.9) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Bug fix: "dh-elpa should provide substvar for depends field", thanks
+    to Thomas Koch (Closes: #799208). Currently we add only an unversioned
+    depends on emacsen-common.
+
+ -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:41:20 -0300
+
 dh-elpa (0.0.8) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Skip binary packages with no files in their package.elpa file and or
diff --git a/dh_elpa b/dh_elpa
index f622442..32ad303 100755
--- a/dh_elpa
+++ b/dh_elpa
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
   next PACKAGE if (scalar(@files) == 0);
 
   if ($dh{BYTECOMPILE}) {
+    addsubstvar($package,'misc:Depends','emacsen-common');
     maybe_install_helper($package,'compat','0644');
     maybe_install_helper($package,'install','0755');
     maybe_install_helper($package,'remove','0755');