Here is is a patch series for all the issues I've found. I am adding notes additional notes below.
Agustin Martin Domingo (3): Modify to work better with elpa. debian/control: Build depend on gnuplot, to allow tests being actually passed. debian/debian-autoloads.el: Handle auto-mode-alist stuff the elpa way. Nicholas D Steeves (9): Rename bin:elpa-gnuplot-mode to bin:elpa-gnuplot… * Please see changelog entry for rationale. The best way to solve this would be to find someone to adopt the project upstream, add correct package.el metadata, and contact MELPA about the namespace hijack, because it is clear that the mode that was previously distributed with GNUPlot should be the cannonical gnuplot-mode. Update Breaks << this version and add elpa-gnuplot-mode to Replaces * I'm not 100% sure about other actions that need to be added, because this is a messy situation that shouldn't have occurred. One reason why I firmly believe this should be solved upstream is that the epoch in this package version will break future packaging of the other gnuplot-mode (the namespace hijack one). Drop emacs24 and emacs25 from Enhances… Install dot.el and dotemacs.el using the "examples" mechanism… Drop version qualifier from dh-elpa build dep… Update team name and email address for the move from Alioth to Salsa Update Homepage. Bruce Ravel's website now directs the user to… * To be 100% accurate this should point to emacsorphanage namespace, but I'm hoping that it can be invalidated by a new upstream maintainer. Add gnuplot-pkg.el with accurate metadata. eg: correct ELPA name… changelog: whitespace cleanup debian/changelog | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- debian/control | 19 +++++++++++------- debian/debian-autoloads.el | 2 ++ debian/docs | 2 -- debian/elpa-gnuplot.elpa | 7 +++++++ debian/examples | 2 ++ debian/gnuplot-mode.elpa | 1 - debian/gnuplot-pkg.el | 4 ++++ debian/install | 3 --- debian/rules | 2 +- 10 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) create mode 100644 debian/debian-autoloads.el create mode 100644 debian/elpa-gnuplot.elpa create mode 100644 debian/examples delete mode 100644 debian/gnuplot-mode.elpa create mode 100644 debian/gnuplot-pkg.el delete mode 100644 debian/install -- 2.20.1