[2016-12-10 09:40] Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> > Function autoloads are handled elegantly by dh-elpa. After installing a > package, you can just put (turn-on-some-global-minor-mode) in your > ~/.emacs, and everything works fine. > > Themes defined with `deftheme' don't work so well. After installing a > theme, a simple call to `load-theme' in your ~/.emacs will fail. > > Two possible workarounds are: > > (package-initialize) > (load-theme 'zenburn t) > > or > > (add-hook 'after-init-hook (lambda () (load-theme 'zenburn))) > > but this really shouldn't be necessary. In short, ELPA packages > supplying themes are currently second-class citizens in the elpa-* > namespace. > > I'm filing this bug against dh-elpa for the time being, but there might > not be any sane patch to dh-elpa that will resolve the issue. The only > solution might be to implement autoloads for defthemes upstream. > > If you are hitting this bug with your package, a sample README.Debian
Thank you for filing bug.
I see two actions we can perform to improve our situation.
1. Install README.Debian file by dh-elpa if we detect that package is
theme and no README.Debian is already provided. If README.Debian is
provided, we can grep it for 'package-initialize', to ensure that
it mentions this issue.
2. We can advice #'load-theme. Something like this:
~~~elisp
(defadvice load-theme
(before load-theme-before-enabling (theme no-confirm no-enable))
"Function autoloads are handled elegantly by dh-elpa. After
installing a
package, you can just put (turn-on-some-global-minor-mode) in your
~/.emacs, and everything works fine.
Themes defined with `deftheme' don't work so well. After installing a
theme, a simple call to `load-theme' in your ~/.emacs will fail. This
advice
'require's a feature, that correspond to theme to be loaded."
(ignore-errors
(require (intern (format "%s-theme" theme)))))
~~~
I know that advices are dangerous, but I believe that this one can
not have any implications, beside negligible perfomance ones.
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