Unable to get .elpaignore to work [Was: Request to add tomelr package to GNU ELPA]

[Kaushal Modi]

On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 8:40 PM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 7:02 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 
> wrote:
> >
> > > I didn't understand the "COPYING" file reference. My repo doesn't have 
> > > that
> > > file.
> >
> > Oh, sorry, you call it "LICENSE", indeed.  Does it make more sense now?
>
> Thanks. I ended up adding these lines:
>
> .github
> doc
> test
> Makefile
> LICENSE

I added an .elpaignore in this[1] commit, and then bumped the release
number. But the latest release of tomelr 0.2.4 is still attempting to
build the test files.

```
Leaving directory ‘/home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4’

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/tomelr.el at
Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022
Entering directory ‘/home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/’
Leaving directory ‘/home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/’

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/all-tests.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022
Entering directory ‘/home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/’
all-tests.el:26:1: Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or
directory, tjson-utils

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tarray.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tcoerce.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tjson-utils.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tkey.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tnil.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tplist.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tpredicates.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tscalar.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/tstring.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/ttable-array.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022

Compiling file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/elpa_28/tomelr-0.2.4/test/ttable.el
at Wed May  4 08:34:51 2022
```
I searched around to see how others are solving this problem. But I
found this another thread with the same issue where the .elpaignore
doesn't seem to work:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-02/msg01287.html


[1]: 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs/elpa.git;a=blob;f=.elpaignore;h=d6a32d6b92970db02706d973fa774388ebed4c3f;hb=884674e168cbef35275a325f707c588ac2b5c866