> But how do I get the auto-mode-alist tweaked to made this the default
> mode for .vala files?
This would be an issue for the elpa-markdown-mode package as well, I think.
Perhaps this is something that could be addressed by putting some fields
into the debian/*.elpa file, maybe something like
Mode: md markdown-mode
Or maybe be more general and have fields with startup code. Or maybe
bite the bullet and put startup code in debian/*.elpa.el
> you can run
> dh_elpa -Nvala-mode-el
> instead of
> dh_elpa
> to tell dh-elpa to ignore vala-mode-el, or you can use
> dh_elpa debian/elpa-vala.elpa
> to tell it to only handle elpa-vala
I'd already tried "dh_elpa debian/elpa-vala-mode.elpa" myself. That
doesn't work, it still tries to elpa-ize the (empty) package
vala-mode-el, and then fails when the tar file passed to emacs --batch
contains just an empty directory.
However "dh_elpa -Nvala-mode-el" does work. Thanks!
It might be good to document this in dh_elpa(1), and maybe even give an
example of a best-practices transition package with all the right
Supplies: and Breaks: fields and such.
Maybe dh_elpa should only run on packages with a debian/*.elpa file?
There would be no loss in functionality, since if the source files are
installed into the right elpa locations in debian/elpa-foo/ using some
other mechanism you can always create an empty debian/foo.elpa file.
--Barak.
