Hi David, thanks for your ideas. Your proposal is to have a separate package which would just contain the emacs pspp-mode. That would then install als elpa external package. This is currently already integrated in the debian pspp package.
My question is: Is there a way that would trigger the installation and activation of the GNU ELPA pspp-mode from the pspp application package? Friedrich > You can package the version from elpa using dh_elpa. The tool > dh-make-elpa can generate an initial package for you. You could also > join the debian-emacsen team and host the package in our salsa repo.