Mathieu,

Great! I chose this PR because I wanted to learn when patching was deemed
appropriate. Thank you for the suggestion.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:45 PM Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hello Stephen,
>
> As this project seems unmaintained and the last release was in 2016, I
> think the best option would be to package a 0.14.0-1 based on
> helm-projectile last commit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> Stephen Webber writes:
>
> > * gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm (emacs-helm-projectile): Apply patch.
> > * gnu/packages/patches/emacs-helm-projectile-require-dash.patch: New
> file.
> > ---
> >  gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm                          |  4 +++-
> >  .../emacs-helm-projectile-require-dash.patch        | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >  create mode 100644
> gnu/packages/patches/emacs-helm-projectile-require-dash.patch
> >
> > diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> > index 8c3c50efdc..5ed2cf67bc 100644
> > --- a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> > +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm
> > @@ -6967,7 +6967,9 @@ as well as features for editing search results.")
> >               (commit (string-append "v" version))))
> >         (file-name (git-file-name name version))
> >         (sha256
> > -        (base32
> "0lph38p112fridighqcizpsyzjbv7qr3d8prbfj6w6q6gfl6cna4"))))
> > +        (base32 "0lph38p112fridighqcizpsyzjbv7qr3d8prbfj6w6q6gfl6cna4"))
> > +       (patches
> > +        (search-patches "emacs-helm-projectile-require-dash.patch"))))
> >      (build-system emacs-build-system)
> >      (propagated-inputs
> >       `(("emacs-dash" ,emacs-dash)
> > diff --git
> a/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-helm-projectile-require-dash.patch
> b/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-helm-projectile-require-dash.patch
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..9da3deff50
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-helm-projectile-require-dash.patch
> > @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> > +Make dash dependency explicit - this issue is resolved in master and is
> > +documented at https://github.com/bbatsov/helm-projectile/issues/120
> > +
> > +--- a/helm-projectile.el
> > ++++ b/helm-projectile.el
> > +@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
> > +
> > + (require 'projectile)
> > + (require 'cl-lib)
> > ++(require 'dash)
> > + (require 'grep)
> > + (require 'helm)
> > + (require 'helm-types)
>
>