I'm converting my most trivial emacs package, vala-mode-el, to
elpa-vala-mode. In vala-mode-el, the emacsen-startup file contains this
snippet:
(autoload 'vala-mode "vala-mode" "Major mode for editing Vala code." t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.vala$" . vala-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.vapi$" . vala-mode))
(add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist '("\\.vala$" . utf-8))
(add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist '("\\.vapi$" . utf-8))
The dh_elpa stuff handles the autoload, of course.
But how do I get the auto-mode-alist tweaked to made this the default
mode for .vala files?
Also, if I add a transition package
Package: vala-mode-el
Architecture: all
Depends: elpa-vala-mode
Description: Transition Package, vala-mode-el to elpa-vala-mode
Vala mode has been elpa-fied and this is the transition package,
vala-mode-el to elpa-vala-mode.
I get a horrible dh_elpa-time error. Is there some approved way of
generating a transition package? Or in general, getting dh-elpa to
ignore some generated package? (In an ideal world dh_elpa could just be
told the old package name and it would generate a transition package
itself, but that would be quite a trick.)
--Barak.
