[dropping emacs-devel as this is getting a bit Debian-specific] Hello,
On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 07:14PM +02, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > Hi Sean, > > thanks for your idea with the separate debian package for the pspp-mode. Do > you think there is also a way to do this: > >>> An alternative way would be to find a way that installing the pspp >>> package will „activate“ the pspp-mode.el from GNU ELPA. > > i.e. no upstream code tracking, no additional debian package - just a trigger > that will activate this mode via GNU ELPA when I install the pspp application. You could implement something like that, but I think it would be against the spirit of Debian Policy, since Debian is meant to be self-contained, rather than expecting the user to download things from the Internet. It would be better to just add a Recommends: field on the new package so by default it would already be installed. -- Sean Whitton
