Hello, After going over the emacs policy documentation and experimenting with installing in emacs a "Major mode for editing Flora programs" called flora-mode in the xsb package I'm preparing, it's still unclear to me how this process works. I have a few questions:
1) (from the emacs policy docs): +++++++++++++++++ "A) Each package may place a file named the same as the package into /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/remove/ and the package must call /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install foo in the postinst and /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-remove foo in the prerm." +++++++++++++++++ What kind of file would that be? Should it be the emacsen-install file debhelber prepares for my package? I also need to call from postinst and prerm: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install emacs20 and /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove emacs20 respectively. Is that correct? 2) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "C) Each add-on package has the right to place files into the following directories: /etc/<emacs>/site-start.d /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Is this the location the .el file that contains the implementation of an emacs mode should go? 3) What am I missing from the emacs policy manual ?? Is this document outdated? I noticed there's no documentation on configuring the debian/emacsen-* files in the current Debian New Maintainer's Guide document. Is there some other documentation on this anywhere I've not come across yet? Also, I was unable to find any documentation on where/how I can download the work other package maintainers have done (.changes, .diffs) so I can have a look at how people like to build packages, (hopefully) try to see how other people install emacs modes, and maybe someday attempt to take over an orphaned package. Could somebody give me a lead on this please? Thanks, -Kristis
