* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-10-26 05:11]:
> Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > OK. [This "general rule" should be added to the Emacs Policy, then.]
>
> Agreed.
What about the patch below? (I just did some cut & paste from the present
thread. Colin and Peter will recognize their words.)
--- debian-emacs-policy Fri Oct 26 12:55:09 2001
+++ debian-emacs-policy-new Fri Oct 26 13:11:48 2001
@@ -219,6 +219,16 @@
file. emacsen-common will make sure that the install/remove
scripts are ordered to respect inter-add-on package dependencies.
+ E) Each add-on package may use debconf to ask site-specific
+ configuration questions. As a general rule, packages should
+ prompt if their general setup overrides the usual emacsen
+ behaviour. Just setting up a few autoloads and adding items to
+ auto-mode-alist are no strong reasons for prompting, especially
+ if there is no other entry in auto-mode-alist for the filetypes
+ added. Keep in mind that users can always override things, since
+ their ~/.emacs (or ~/.xemacs/init.el) is evaluated after the
+ Debian site packages.
+
7) Mandatory binary symlink
Each emacsen main package must have a symlink
--
Rafael Laboissiere
