Kevin, thank you for your feedback. It is very helpful.
I do not know enough about emacs packaging, though I have started to
really enjoy using it (with vim bindings and evil-mode (and look forward
to trying spacemacs)).
I together with Ambrose Kofi Laing assigned an earlier version of the
file to the FSF, and see them and maintenance of it ultimately as
upstream, so I am obliged to forward it to them. Which I intend to and
shall do. There are a few things that ought to be done with the file
before its submission though.
With respect to Debian packaging or interaction with the installed
Debian package, I have a couple of questions. Should not file deposits
to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/sisu-mode.el be co-ordinated with the
debian-emacs team? What is the protocol? I will look up email, do they
have an IRC presence?
I am out a fair bit these days and will be quite busy, but would like to
see that this is sorted.
Thank you.
Ralph Amissah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 02:42:20PM +1100, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Package: sisu
> Version: 7.1.5-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> File: /usr/share/sisu/conf/editor-syntax-etc/emacs/sisu-mode.el
>
> It'd be good to install sisu-mode.el to
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/sisu-mode.el ready for use in emacs.
> A symlink to or from /usr/share/sisu/conf/editor-syntax-etc/emacs/ could
> be left if desired if users might expect to see it there too.
>
> I suggest file debian/sisu.emacsen-startup below for autoloads which
> dh_installemacsen will install to /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50sisu.el
>
> This doesn't create a dependency on emacs, just makes it ready for use
> if you do run emacs.
>
> ;;; 50sisu.el -- debian emacs setups for sisu
>
> (if (not (file-exists-p "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/sisu-mode.el"))
> (message "sisu removed but not purged, skipping setup")
>
> (autoload 'sisu-mode "sisu-mode" "Major mode for editing SiSU files." t)
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.sst\\'" . sisu-mode))
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ssm\\'" . sisu-mode))
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ssi\\'" . sisu-mode)))
