Hello, On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 11:44AM +02, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
> i think the benefit of having the pspp-mode in GNU ELPA is that I can load it > in emacs via the standard elpa way, i.e. M-x package-list—packages and then > select pspp-mode - which is working right now because Stefan included > pspp-mode.el in the GNU > ELPA repository. > > Until now I included the pspp-mode.el in the pspp debian package where it is > then installed as an „external“ elpa package. The benefit is that once I > install pspp, then the pspp-mode is autoloaded in emacs right away, i.e. when > I open a .sps file, then the mode is immediately working. I think it is nice > that I do not even need to know ELPA and the mode works in emacs right away > when I install the debian pspp package. So maybe that is a reason to keep > pspp-mode.el in the distribution. An alternative way would be to find a way > that installing the pspp package will „activate“ the pspp-mode.el from GNU > ELPA. There could easily be a separate package in Debian containing just pspp-mode.el and tracking GNU ELPA as upstream. Docs are here: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/dh-make-elpa/dh-make-elpa.1.en.html -- Sean Whitton
