Hi Team;

I plan to migrate notmuch-emacs debian packaging to use the tool (that I
co-maintain) dh-elpa. This will allow dropping the custom maintainer
scripts [1]. It will also make the debian version of notmuch-emacs show
up in M-x package-list-packages, and allow us to use the package.el
facilities to e.g. generate autoloads files (if desired).

As a side effect, I will add packaging metadata for package.el
(notmuch-pkg.el, with version in it).

dh-elpa is available in jessie-backports, and in ubuntu 16.04 and later.
It should also be easy to install from source in other derivatives; if
not please let us know at debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org

d

[1]: and also close https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843287